by Gregory L. Vogt Blast off on a space adventure in this exciting 18-book series. Full-color photographs from NASA allow students to experience the beauty of each planet and the sun. A solar system diagram helps readers visualize the planet’s place in space. This series explores and supports the standard “The Physical Setting: The Universe,” as required by Benchmarks for Science Literacy: Project...

Galileo Galilei Edmund Halley The Wright Brothers Sputnik I Yuri Gagarin Apollo 11 Vikings I and 2 Voyager 1 and 2 Columbia Spaceship Space Shuttle Challenger Hubble Space Telescope Mars Orbiter Buzz Aldrin (1st man on moon) NASA Questions that they need to answer: For People: What are they known for? When did the event happen? What impact did this have on society? Any neat facts that they want to include. For Spaceships and...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram (1,592 lb) space probe launched by NASA in 1977, to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. Operating for 34 years, 2 months and 24 days as of today (29 November 2011), the spacecraft receives routine commands and transmits data back to the Deep Space Network. At a distance of 119 astronomical units (1.78×1010 km) as of October 2011,[2] it is the farthest...

Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars as part of NASA’s Viking program. It was the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission,[1] and until May 19, 2010 held the record for the second longest Mars surface mission of 6 years and 116 days (from landing until surface mission termination, Earth time). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_1 The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking...

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107, theSpace Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in the death of all seven crew members. Debris from Columbia fell to Earth in Texas along a path stretching from Trophy Club to Tyler, as well as into parts...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4 meter (7.9 ft) aperture telescope in low Earth orbit, Hubble’s four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared. The telescope is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble. Hubble’s orbit outside the distortion of Earth’s atmosphere allows it...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation’s civilian space program and for aeronautics andaerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA’s mission statement has been to “pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.” [5] On September 14, 2011, NASA announced that it...