Flight Into Orbit

by David Jefferis

This beautifully illustrated book gives an inside look into the science of traveling beyond Earth's atmosphere. Easy-to-understand language helps explain early experiments that led from the NRL V-2 rockets launched by the United States in the 1940s, to the first artificial satellites, space probes, and rockets. The history of the manned Apollo and Gemini missions is also explained using brilliant photographs. Flight Into Orbit gives children a full...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778731154
• ISBN13: 9780778731153
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Crabtree Classics
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6