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Defines in simple terms the characteristics of outer space, satellites, and the principles of flight through space.

Explains with simple text and pictures what it is like to walk in space, launch a satellite, eat, sleep, and brush your teeth without gravity.

Traces the history of manned space flights from Mercury to the Shuttle program, examines the medical effects of weightlessness on astronauts, the difficulties of eating, working, sleeping, and cleaning oneself on board, and future plans for a space station.

Presents a collection of jokes and riddles about the planets and outer space.

A space station is a very unique place to live. How do people who live on space stations get food, air, and water? What kinds of experiments are conducted on them? Readers find out as they explore what life has been like on space stations throughout their history.

Spacecraft have a very important job—transporting people between Earth and space.

Simple text and "out-of-this-world" photography introduce readers to the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, and its mission to study Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

"Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.

"OCTOBER 1957. The USSR, rival of the United States in the so-called Cold War, launches the first artificial satellite into Earth's orbit: Sputnik 1.

This book explores the deep reaches of space alongside the latest high-tech developments used for space travel and exploration.

Presents the second season of the History Channel television series "The Universe," which explores topics such as alien planets, cosmic holes, the moon, the Milky Way, dark matter, astrobiology, colonizing space, nebulas, gravity, cosmic collisions, and constellations.