The U.S. Space Camp Book of Astronauts
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As long as human beings have inhabited the Earth, there have been individuals willing to risk their lives in order to discover and explore the unknown. Following in this great tradition, astronauts continue to push ever farther, into the frontier of space. The U.S. Space Camp Book of Astronauts highlights some of the outstanding men and women of space: Alan Shepard, Heil Armstrong, and other legends of the spacerace years Skylab commander Pete Conrad and Apollo-Soyuz crew member Deke Slayton, whose missions payed the way for current space programs early Space Shuttle astronauts, such as Sally Ride, John Young, and Guion Bluford and today's corps of astronauts, whose cultural diversity reflects the new era of international cooperation in space The compelling stories of their dreams, struggles, and triumphs bring the exciting, continuing history of astronautics vividly to life. Packed with over thirty dynamic photographs, The U.S. Space Camp Book of Astronauts will inform -- and inspire -- space pioneers of tomorrow.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0688122264
ISBN13:9780688122263
Release Date:April 1996
Publisher:HarperCollins
Length:48 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 8.9" x 11.3"
Age Range:3 to 8 years
Grade Range:Preschool to Grade 3
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