All aboard for the trip of a lifetime! This interactive guide to space travel recounts the human quest to venture ever deeper into space, from the race to put the first person on the Moon to manned stations in space and missions to Pluto and the outer planets. Explore the Solar System, from the first rockets to the outer planets and beyond, and learn about the pioneers who made space history including Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Neil Armstrong. In addition to the history of space travel, this unique guide contains activities and has clever features that pull out to reveal amazing details of the world's iconic spacecrafts and their inner workings.

Author Biography

Mike Goldsmith is a qualified astrophysicist and established children's science author and consultant. Twice nominated for the Junior Aventis Science Prize, he has written for Scholastic, Kingfisher and Hodder Wayland amongst others.