The Young Scientist Book of SpaceflightDescribes the spacecraft man has put into space from the V-2 rocket to the present. Includes related experiments and instructions for making models of two spacecraft. |
Contents
The Young Scientist | 6 |
ABOUT THIS BOOK CONTENTS | 12 |
orbit You will find out about the dangers of travelling 16 Servants in the | 22 |
Copyright | |
Common terms and phrases
airless space antenna Apollo artificial satellite astronauts atmosphere back to Earth backpack balloon ballpoint pen balsa blocks BEAD boosters bottle brake burn cameras card discs centrifugal force combustion chamber cooled cosmonaut craft driving-wheel Edwin Aldrin elevons exact centre external tank fire flight fuel fuelled go into orbit gravity heat heatshield hole HOOKS Intelsat 4A Konstantin Tsiolkovsky landing launch liquid hydrogen liquid oxygen lunar Mars matchstick Meillerwagen Mercury meteoroids mission module Moon moonbase Moonmine neck nozzle orbiter's outer elevons parachute payload Peenemünde Pioneer planet plastic plasticine Plug nozzle Polar orbit polystyrene pressure programmes propellants protect pull radio Retro rockets rocket engine rubber band Russian Saturn shown slider small rocket Soyuz Space Shuttle space station space travel spacecraft spaceflight Spacelab spaceplane Sputnik stage surface TAPE television tubs Van Allen Belts Venus Vostok Wernher von Braun wheels Wind the arm wings wire Yuri Gagarin