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History of Space Exploration - Colouring Book

Explore the sand dunes of Mars; Saturn’s giant moon, Titan; the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, and other distant worlds in this thrilling coloring book, which highlights major milestones in space exploration.

Forty-four carefully researched, accurately drawn illustrations re-create a variety of exciting scenes that chronicle human attempts to explore space — from the launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926 to the tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986.

Other fully captioned drawings include:

• the start of the “Space Race” with the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1 (1957);
• the U. S. launch of a chimp into suborbital space (1961);
• first U. S. space walk (Ed White, June 1965);
• first space rendezvous (December 1965);
• first men on the moon (1969);
• Sally Ride, first U. S. woman astronaut (1983);
• and much more.

Author	Bruce LaFontaine
Product Code	FN044
Ages	11-14
Length	48 pages
Publisher	Dover
Format	Softcover, Black and White