Space exploration
Subtitle: Almanac
By: Rob Nagel ; Sarah Hermsen, project editor
Series: Space exploration reference library; Space exploration reference library
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780787692094; 9780787692100; 9780787692117
Subjects: Astronautics; Juvenile Encyclopedias; Exploration; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xliii-l) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Readers guide; title: Space exploration Timeline; title: Words To Know; title: Research and activity ideas; title: Pre-flight: Early stargazers; title: Defining order of the universe; title: Rocketry in warfare; title: Rocketry in exploration; title: Space Race to the moon: Cold war; title: Deep beep-beep; title: Manned Spaceflight begins; title: Apollo program; title: Home in outer Space: Apollo-Soyuz test project; title: Space stations; title: Space shuttles; title: Probing the outer reaches: Land-based observatories; title: Space-based observatories; title: Probes; title: Where to learn more; title: Index.