100 Facts Space Travel

100 Facts Space Travel includes key topics about travelling to and living in space in easily-digestible, numbered facts. Every page showcases amazing illustrations and photographs that clarify difficult points for children. A fantastic kids’ space book for both confident and reluctant readers.

Essential topics covered in 100 Facts Space Travel:

• How rockets blast into space
• How astronauts prepare to live in space and what it’s like on the International Space Station
• Visits to the Moon and Mars

Examples of ‘I don’t believe it’ fascinating facts:

• At launch, the shuttle weighed about 2 million kilograms, but most of this was fuel!
• The NASA spacesuits that the astronauts wear on spacewalks at the ISS cost $12 million each!
• Spacewalking astronauts may have to stay in their spacesuits for up to eight hours without a toilet break.

Activities to make learning accessible and interactive include:

• Make a balloon rocket and see how the pushing force, thrust, works.
• Work out how much you would weight on the Moon!
• Learn how to spot the International Space Station in a clear sky just before dawn or after sunset.