Mission: Space

Mission: Space is a spectacular, comprehensive look at our galaxy and beyond. The unique round pages contain the most current information, research, and discoveries, including the great Pluto debate, new advances made at the International Space Station, stats on the newest planets and planetoids found just beyond our solar system, and much, much more.

Carole Stott has written more than twenty books on astronomy and space and is a feature writer for the U.K. magazine Astronomy Now. Carole authored Kingfisher Knowledge: Stars and Planets, I Wonder Why Stars Twinkle and Other Questions About Space, and Astronomy, and she was a chapter contributor to The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia. Before turning to full-time writing, she was curator and then the head of the observatory at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.