Discovery Kids Factivity Blast Off on a Mission to Explore Space: Discover the Facts! Do the Activities!

by Tom Jackson

Overview

Take a trip to explore space with this amazing Discovery Kids Factivity book. Blast Off on a Mission to Explore Space lets you travel to different galaxies, navigate the solar system, and explore the International Space Station! Complete activities, puzzles, mazes and more on your exciting journey of discovery!

Discover the facts! Do the activities!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474820400
Publisher:	Parragon, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/21/2016
Series:	Discovery Kids Factivity Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

Table of Contents

Welcome to space 6

Where is space? 8

What's in space? 10

Speed of light 12

Gravity 14

The Big Bang! 16

The Milky Way 18

The Solar System 20

The Sun 22

Earth 24

The Moon 26

Craters galore! 28

Just a phase 30

In the shadows 32

Rocky planets 34

Venus and Mars 36

The Asteroid Belt 38

Jupiter 40

Saturn 42

Uranus 44

Neptune 45

Amazing moons 46

Pluto and Charon 48

Dwarf planets 50

A comet's journey 52

Meteor shower! 54

Solar system story 56

Constellations 58

Seeing into space 60

On the inside 62

The biggest stars! 64

The life of a star 66

Black holes 68

Galaxies 70

Rocket power 72

In orbit 74

Satellites 76

Famous rockets 78

Space shuttles 80

Space adventurers 82

Liftoff! 84

All aboard! 86

Feeling weightless 88

Suited up 90

Staying in touch 92

Getting home 94

To the Moon 96

Apollo spacecraft 98

On the Moon 100

A space station 102

Living in space 104

Working in space 106

Landing on Mars 108

Mars rover 110

Robot explorers 112

Looking for aliens 114

To space and back 116

Spaceliners 118

Into the future 120

A new world 122

Glossary 124

Index 126

Answers 128