Space Pioneers charts the exploits of a handful of space explorers who have ridden powerful rockets into the stratosphere to brave the icy, airless vacuum of space and accomplish a series of intrepid firsts. Easy-to-read text is packed with sidebar features and illustrated with gorgeous photography depicting technologies, planets, stars, and much more. Each title includes an index and a glossary of terms.
From the first rockets to leave Earth's atmosphere and the animals that made brave journeys into space, such as Laika the Soviet stray dog, to the first spacewalks and the tragedies of the loss of all crew members of the Challenger and ...