12 Ways to Get a Ticket to Space

by Kate Peridot, Terri Po (Illustrator)

Overview

Discover the many exciting ways that we could travel to space, now and in the future, with this colorful fact file for budding astronauts and space tourists.

Space travel has never been so accessible, with NASA even aiming to land humans on Mars in the 2030s. This book is a launchpad for the curiosity and intrepid nature that any young space traveler will need to have in our solar system and beyond.

Learn all about the ways humans go to space today and how we’ll likely live there decades from now, with these twelve fascinating 'tickets':

1. Fly in a space balloon
2. Ride on a spaceplane
3. Build your own rocket
4. Win the space lottery
5. Become an astronaut pilot
6. Be a science mission specialist
7. Get sponsored to go to space
8. Work as a space engineer
9. Visit the Moon as a space tourist
10. Volunteer to colonize Mars
11. Launch your personal time capsule into space, and
12. Send a message on a beam of light to travel forever among the stars!

Ripped-from-the-headlines STEM content meets creative, accessible ways to bring space to you across these twelve illustrated, four-page scenarios. You'll also explore the International Space Station with a detailed cutaway map, visit a gallery of iconic rockets, and find out what it takes to be a real-life star-sailor at the astronaut training academy. Plus, at the Astronaut Hall of Fame, marvel at the achievements of explorers past—and milestones that could be reached in your lifetime.

When you're finished with the tickets, start planning your journey to space with tips and prompts on how to prepare, such as riding a roller coaster to get used to zero-g, camping out beneath the stars, and designing your rocket, space station, or lunar base.

With Terri Po’s whizz-bang illustrations of rockets, space stations, EVA suits, satellites and much, much more, 12 Ways to Get a Ticket to Space brings space travel within young readers’ orbit, and lets them experience something that may one day be their reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711286375
Publisher:	Wide Eyed Editions
Publication date:	09/03/2024
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	1,011,545
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Kate Peridot has written a range of non-fiction and fiction children’s books for curious and daring 3–11-year-olds. She loves writing text about animals, people, and space that spark a quest for knowledge and a sense of adventure in her readers. She currently lives with her family in the sunny south of France and likes to spend her time doodling and exploring.

Terri Po is from Hong Kong and creates editorial illustrations, infographics, and illustrated books, as well as doing live graphic facilitation. Her latest books include How the News Works (Templar, 2024), Wildlife in the Balance (Flying Eye Books, 2024), and 12 Ways to Get a Ticket to Space (Wide Eyed Editions, 2024). She currently lives and works in the Scottish Highlands.

Editorial Reviews

Discover the ways we travel to space and ow we might get there in the future in this fact file for budding astronauts.”

—The Bookseller

“Starry-eyed look at tomorrow’s space travel.”

—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2024-07-04
You, too, can reach space, someday!

From taking a trip in a space balloon to building a rocket or sending a message into space, Peridot catalogs a dozen ways for aspiring space travelers to fulfill their dreams. The book’s tagline, “How To Blast Off From Planet Earth in Your Lifetime”—specifically, the last three words—is the key to this compilation of visions for space travel in the near future. Some already exist for the lucky or wealthy few; some are still in the planning and funding stage; and some are attainable with study and work. Much of the text is necessarily based on speculation (“All being well, you will soon become the first person to pilot a homebuilt rocket into space”). Given that most titles about space travel focus on particular missions, this one provides a fresh perspective. The lively design is filled with text boxes and balloons and relatively short paragraphs set on dramatic backgrounds. The book contains a lot of information, but it isn’t always clear just how to follow the text, which jumps around as one’s stomach might in zero gravity. The more straightforward layouts provide relief, including a gallery of space travelers, a spread describing astronaut training, a comparison of rockets, and suggestions for strengthening one’s chances of becoming a space traveler. The digital illustrations portray racially diverse people, but the skin- and hair-color details of real people aren’t always accurate.

A starry-eyed look at tomorrow’s space travel. (resources, glossary)(Nonfiction. 8-10)

Kirkus Reviews