
The Space Race
The Journey to the Moon and Beyond
Sarah Cruddas(Author)
DK Children (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 3. December 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-241-66990-7 (ISBN)
Description
Blast off alongside space expert Sarah Cruddas on a journey through space exploration history, from the Apollo Moon landings to mind-boggling plans for living on Mars.
How did we land on the Moon? What will the space jobs of the future look like? And why did we send a car to space? The Space Race answers all of the big questions that kids have about space travel. Sarah Cruddas brings to life the hidden stories behind the most famous space missions, before taking the reader on a journey through our space future.
This children's book includes a foreword by NASA astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission. It also includes fascinating insights from Sarah's interviews with real-life astronauts including Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan and Virgin Galactic Test Pilot Kelly Latimer. Space-mad kids will delight in the detail, photographs and information on each page, and will love seeing intricate diagrams of iconic spaceships, Moon cars and space suits created by artist Mark Ruffle.
Propelled by recent scientific discoveries, The Space Race is an essential children's handbook to understanding every aspect of the history, and future, of human space travel.
This reissue is updated to include the events of the last 7 years, right up to and including Artemis's mission to the Moon that happened last month, and the latest information on Mars missions, discoveries and photographs, new space stations, telescopes, and images of deep space. In total, around 14 spreads are revised and the book has a new cover.
How did we land on the Moon? What will the space jobs of the future look like? And why did we send a car to space? The Space Race answers all of the big questions that kids have about space travel. Sarah Cruddas brings to life the hidden stories behind the most famous space missions, before taking the reader on a journey through our space future.
This children's book includes a foreword by NASA astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission. It also includes fascinating insights from Sarah's interviews with real-life astronauts including Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan and Virgin Galactic Test Pilot Kelly Latimer. Space-mad kids will delight in the detail, photographs and information on each page, and will love seeing intricate diagrams of iconic spaceships, Moon cars and space suits created by artist Mark Ruffle.
Propelled by recent scientific discoveries, The Space Race is an essential children's handbook to understanding every aspect of the history, and future, of human space travel.
This reissue is updated to include the events of the last 7 years, right up to and including Artemis's mission to the Moon that happened last month, and the latest information on Mars missions, discoveries and photographs, new space stations, telescopes, and images of deep space. In total, around 14 spreads are revised and the book has a new cover.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 to 9 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
438 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-66990-7 (9780241669907)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition

Book
05/2019
DK Children
€41.07
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Person
Sarah Cruddas is a space journalist and broadcaster who frequently talks about space on British TV, presenting on Sky News, Channel 5 News, ITV, Channel 4, and the BBC. Internationally, she appears on the National Geographic and Discovery Channels. Sarah writes about the space industry for the BBC, CNN, New Scientist, The Sunday Times, The Royal Aeronautical Society, and The Telegraph. She has worked with the EU, Google, NASA, and The Space Foundation. Sarah is the author of DK findout! Solar System and Do you know about Space?