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Overview
A young reader's guide to space exploration.
Final Frontier is an illustrated guide to the past, present and future of space exploration. The book covers the early history of space flight: from the first unmanned missions, to the early manned flights and finally to the Apollo moon missions. Space program successes and failures are covered including the disasters that befell Apollo 1 and the shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
The book explains how deep space is explored today with such sophisticated telescopes and space probes as:
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Manned space stations
- Unmanned probes such as Voyager and Pioneer
- Space stations such as Mir and
Apollo-Soyuz.
The proposed International Space Station is described as well as the unique challenges people will encounter in space such as living in a zero-gravity environment.
The future of space exploration is discussed including the possibility of alien life on other solar systems. Proposed projects such as an automated lunar mining operation and a scientific base on Mars are also covered.
Readers will enjoy Final Frontier for its colorful, abundant illustrations and easy-to-follow text.
Synopsis
Space exploration from early attempts to the future including: the Apollo missions, space shuttle, international space station, Hubble Space Telescope and unmanned space probes.
Joella Peterson - Children's Literature
This book describes the history of space travel from the beginning ideas of rockets to the future destinations beyond the Earth's orbit. Owen presents a clear text that readers can follow, although with 125 pages, it could be a bit lengthy for some readers. The book is also complimented by a plethora of pictures, photographs, and diagrams on every page to help readers visualize past space exploration, the various parts of space, and what the future could hold. A number of informative sidebars are scattered throughout the text, which help to further explain subjects that were only touched upon in the main text. The end of the book has a glossary to explain difficult words and an index to help young readers doing school reports. This book would be a perfect choice for school assignments that need a good non-fiction book a hundred-plus pages or an in-depth look at the history of space travel. 2003, Firefly Books, Ages 8 to 12.
Editorials
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Plethora of knowledge about the space industry... excellent photos of space equipment, events and technology... a "must have" for any space enthusiast's personal library.Canadian Materials -
This is an attractive book. The layout, with many awe-inspiring photos, grabs the reader's attention. The photos combined with an informative, well-written text should make this a popular book with young readers.Library Media Connection -
A fine one-volume compilation of space efforts... sure to have wide use by space enthusiasts and for research in the science curriculum.Children's Literature
This book describes the history of space travel from the beginning ideas of rockets to the future destinations beyond the Earth's orbit. Owen presents a clear text that readers can follow, although with 125 pages, it could be a bit lengthy for some readers. The book is also complimented by a plethora of pictures, photographs, and diagrams on every page to help readers visualize past space exploration, the various parts of space, and what the future could hold. A number of informative sidebars are scattered throughout the text, which help to further explain subjects that were only touched upon in the main text. The end of the book has a glossary to explain difficult words and an index to help young readers doing school reports. This book would be a perfect choice for school assignments that need a good non-fiction book a hundred-plus pages or an in-depth look at the history of space travel. 2003, Firefly Books, Ages 8 to 12.—Joella Peterson