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How to be a space explorer : your out-of-this-world adventure  Cover Image Book Book

How to be a space explorer : your out-of-this-world adventure

Brake, Mark (author.).

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  • ISBN: 1743604343
  • ISBN: 9781743604342
  • ISBN: 9781743603901
  • ISBN: 1743603908
  • Physical Description: print
    160 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
  • Publisher: Oakland, CA : Lonely Planet Publications, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: The planetarium -- Traveling in space -- Training -- Tour of the planets -- Touring the moons -- Chasing space rocks -- Volcanic adventures -- Extreme space -- Looking for life -- Staying over -- Deep space -- Coming home.
Subject: Space flight
Astronauts

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    Everything young explorers needs to know to travel in space, covering what life in zero gravity is like, how to find your way around the solar system, and the all-important question of how to pee in a spacesuit!

    Unique illustrations take kids to the heart of the action and amazing photos show what the universe is really like.

    Incredible stories of real-life space exploration for kids aged 8 and up, by author and astrobiologist Professor Mark Brake.

    • More than 300 amazing photographs
    • The perfect present for every aspirant astronaut!

    About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

    TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

    'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

    'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

  • Lonely Planet

    Everything young explorers needs to know to travel in space, covering what life in zero gravity is like, how to find your way around the solar system, and the all-important question of how to pee in a spacesuit!

    Unique illustrations take kids to the heart of the action and amazing photos show what the universe is really like.

    Incredible stories of real-life space exploration for kids aged 8 and up, by author and astrobiologist Professor Mark Brake.

    • More than 300 amazing photographs
    • The perfect present for every aspirant astronaut!

    About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

    TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

    'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

    'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)


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