Title Space race : the story of space exploration to the moon and beyond / Ben Hubbard.

Publication Info.	Hauppauge, New York : B.E.S. Publishing, 2019.
	©2018

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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 629.4 HUBBARD	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition for the United States...
Description	96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Note	"Published in 2018 by Carlton Books Limited..., London."
	"Video + 3D models with augmented reality, free app"--Cover.
Contents	Chapter 1: The race for rockets. V-2 Missile ; Sputnik Satellite ; America responds ; Vostok 1 -- Chapter 2: Humans in space. Mercury missions ; Space probes ; Voskhod vehicles ; Gemini ; Spacewalking -- Chapter 3: The moon in view. Bases are loaded ; Saturn V ; Apollo spacecraft ; Training for space ; Spacecraft tragedies ; Destination moon: Apollo 11 ; The lunar module ; Men on the moon ; The Apollo spacesuit -- Chapter 4: Space stations and shuttles. Spectacular Soyuz ; Space stations ; Mir Space Station ; Living in space ; Space shuttle ; The shuttle: there and back ; ISS: International Space Station ; Satellite exploration -- Chapter 5: Probing the planets. Space probes ; Cassini-Huygens ; Curiosity mission to Mars ; Comet riding ; Hubble Telescope -- Chapter 6: Into the future. Commercial spaceflight ; Mission to the sun ; Moon bases ; The race to Mars ; Life on Mars ; Beyond the solar system.
Summary	Presents the story of space exploration, from the race for rockets and putting a man on the moon, to the International Space Station and life beyond our solar system.
Note	Includes index.
Subject	Astronautics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Space race -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Space flight to the moon -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Outer space -- Exploration -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Astronautics.
	Space race.
	Space flight to the moon.
	Outer space -- Exploration.
	Astronautics. (OCoLC)fst00819505
	Exploration of outer space. (OCoLC)fst01353078
	Space flight to the moon. (OCoLC)fst01127716
	Space race. (OCoLC)fst01127802
	Outer space. (OCoLC)fst01243437
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN	9781438050683 (hardcover)
	1438050682 (hardcover)

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