Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Technology - Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science

Do helicopters need more or less energy to stay in the sky than an airplane? What pushes a rocket to leave the atmosphere? Why can airplanes have smaller motors than helicopters?

Help your students learn the answers to these and other questions

Written for educators, homeschoolers, parents--and kids --this fully illustrated book provides a fun mix of projects, discussion materials, instructions, and subjects for deeper investigation around the basics of homemade flying objects. With the projects in this book, you can spend more time learning and experimenting, and less time...

Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics. For children who are ready to read on their own.

Did you know that some military aircrafts are capable of "supersonic flight," traveling at speeds faster than sound? Or that the Wright brothers designed the first airplane after studying the wings of birds? You'll learn this and much more as you become an expert on the science behind airplanes.

Amaze your friends with all you've learned in this engaging, fact-filled Level 3 Ready-to-Read A special section at the back...

Explore Ultimate Sticker Book: Space, an out of this world sticker book filled with amazing facts, fun activities, and more than 250 reusable stickers.

Learn about stars, planets, black holes, and more while creating your own stellar space scenes. Travel through space with Ultimate Sticker Book: Space.

Taking subjects that kids love, from dinosaurs to baby animals to transportation, DK's Ultimate Sticker Book series is being refreshed and updated and now features more than 250 fun, reusable stickers. Packed with activities that allow children to create scenes,...

Meet Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut Did you know before Mae was an astronaut, she went to medical school and joined the Peace Corps? But she never forgot her childhood dream to travel to outer space. So in 1985 she applied to NASA's astronaut training program. On September 12, 1992, Mae flew into space with six other astronauts aboard...

When the Earth disappears behind the moon, Collins loses contact with his fellow astronauts on the moon's surface, with mission control at NASA, and with the entire human race, becoming more alone than any human being has ever been before. In total isolation for 21 hours, Collins awaits word that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have managed to launch their moon lander successfully to return to the orbiter--a feat never accomplished before and rendered more problematic by the fuel burn of their difficult landing. In this singularly lonely and dramatic setting, Collins reviews the politics,...

Know a young person (or grownup) who loves to draw? If so, they're going to love this book. 80 pages of easy to follow, step-by-step instructions for drawing jets, prop planes, helicopters, even a drone. But that's not all. This book also contains a photograph of each aircraft and tons of specs including it's weight, length, top speed and mission. That would be a lot more than most books offer but here's what REALLY sets this book apart: There's a QR code for every aircraft. If you use your smartphone to click on the QR code (you'll need to download one of the many free QR code reader...

Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.

A special section at the back of the book includes extras on...

When are we going to Mars? What would it be like living on Mars? How could we get there? How long would it take?

On Mars, you can jump 2.5 times higher....it has less gravity than Earth. Mars also has no air, so bring your spacesuit

If you love reading about Space, then you will enjoy reading all about our planet neighbor.

This book answers all kinds of questions you may have about the planet Mars.

Questions like... How did Mars get its name? Why the Red color? How far is Mars from...