How to Spacewalk
Step-by-Step with Shuttle Astronauts
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-1-5295-1876-4 (ISBN)
Description
Aspiring astronauts will be ready for lift-off with this thrilling guide to preparing for and doing a real spacewalk - featuring NASA photos from the author's own space adventures!
WELCOME, ASTRONAUT, TO THE MISSION OF YOUR LIFE! Join Kathryn D. Sullivan, three-time shuttle astronaut and the first American woman to walk in space, and celebrated author and artist Michael J. Rosen, as you report for duty on the NASA space program. Experience moving in zero gravity, learn how to conduct scientific experiments while in orbit, and practise manoeuvres in your 130-kilogram space suit in the world's largest pool, until ... lift-off ! With dazzling photographs and an astronaut as your guide, the sky is the limit on the spacewalking adventure of your life.
WELCOME, ASTRONAUT, TO THE MISSION OF YOUR LIFE! Join Kathryn D. Sullivan, three-time shuttle astronaut and the first American woman to walk in space, and celebrated author and artist Michael J. Rosen, as you report for duty on the NASA space program. Experience moving in zero gravity, learn how to conduct scientific experiments while in orbit, and practise manoeuvres in your 130-kilogram space suit in the world's largest pool, until ... lift-off ! With dazzling photographs and an astronaut as your guide, the sky is the limit on the spacewalking adventure of your life.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 to 9 years
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 260 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5295-1876-4 (9781529518764)
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Kathryn D. Sullivan, also known as "The Most Vertical Person in the World", has spanned the greatest distance that any Earthling has travelled, from the deepest ocean to the altitudes of three space-shuttle missions. Among the first women in the US space program - and the first American woman to "walk in space" - she is also an oceanographer, global explorer, pilot, author of Handprints on Hubble, and the host of the podcast Kathy Sullivan Explores. For several years, she served as Under Secretary of Commerce for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Michael J. Rosen is the author of some 150 books for readers of all ages, including A Ben of All Trades: The Most Inventive Boyhood of Benjamin Franklin, illustrated by Matt Tavares; A Tale of Rescue, illustrated by Stan Fellows; and four volumes of haiku. Although his imagination has soared in many directions and genres, the one he's never considered is up: a step stool is his maximum height, and a sheet of black construction paper on the floor makes him dizzy. Michael J. Rosen also works as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and companion animal to a cattle dog named Chant.
Michael J. Rosen is the author of some 150 books for readers of all ages, including A Ben of All Trades: The Most Inventive Boyhood of Benjamin Franklin, illustrated by Matt Tavares; A Tale of Rescue, illustrated by Stan Fellows; and four volumes of haiku. Although his imagination has soared in many directions and genres, the one he's never considered is up: a step stool is his maximum height, and a sheet of black construction paper on the floor makes him dizzy. Michael J. Rosen also works as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and companion animal to a cattle dog named Chant.