The year is 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age. Space shuttle Discovery is about o dock at the first permanent U. S. space station, which author Dick Lattimer called Friendship. In all but name, the space station depicted in these pages is based on NASA plans. To help you project yourself on board, Lattimer has created a fictional ......
How far is a light year? Why isnt Pluto a planet anymore? Will the Universe end? What exactly is dark energy? How much does it cost to deliver a pizza to space? Uncover the answers to some of the most puzzling questions about space in this entertaining and informative miscellany from the expert astronomers at Royal Observatory Greenwich.
This is an unusual and practical guide to the sky as we see it -- with the naked eye. Leads the reader from the stars to the Sun, Moon and various planets, to comets and meteors, and the Southern Hemisphere.
Fundamental core elements of the study of Earth and the universe’s structure, components, and essential characteristics. A class worth of facts to support early learning, continued development, and as a reference for review during and after building a strong foundation.
Reading Weather provides a quick and simple way to understand how the atmosphere works, how to interpret and use weather forecasts before venturing outdoors, and also how to make your own forecast in the field by observing the changes in the weather.
July 1969. It’s a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. It is only seven months since NASA made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now, ......
An adventure in scientific discovery Pluto, the farthermost planet in the solar system, some 3,673 million mites from the Sun, was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in 1930. The fiftieth anniversary of Pluto's discovery will be celebrated in 1980 and OUT OF THE DARKNESS: THE PLANET PLUTO tells the exciting scientific story of ......
British mathematician and astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle coined the phrase 'Big Bang Theory' to describe the explanation of the origin of the universe. This book comments on the nature of the scientific enterprise, gives his view of life on Earth from the perspective of astronomy, and speculates about the future.
