100 Facts Exploring Space Author:Steve Parker 100 FACTS - EXPLORING SPACE is bursting with exactly 100 fantastic facts, incredible images and fun activities. Children aged 7+ will learn everything they need to know about the wonders of space exploration. Kids learn more easily with bite-sized information. Photographs and artworks aid children who learn through visual prompts. Activities... more » allow children to put what they have learned into practice. 100 Facts Exploring Space includes key topics about deep space and other worlds in easily-digestible, numbered facts. Every page showcases amazing illustrations and photographs that clarify difficult points for children. A fantastic kids' space book for both confident and reluctant readers. Essential topics covered in 100 Facts Exploring Space: Planning and preparation for a space voyage Blast-off, travelling through deep space and reaching the target of orbit Space landers and robotic rovers Examples of 'I don't believe it' fascinating facts: The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is the most expensive mission ever. It cost more than $3.3 billion the price of 12 Airbus A380 super jumbo jets. The fastest spacecraft, and the fastest man-made object ever, was Helios 2. It neared the Sun at 42 miles per second! A craft entering Neptune's atmosphere would be met by the fastest winds in the Solar System ten times stronger than a hurricane on Earth! Activities to make learning accessible and interactive include: Make a rocket using a cardboard tube, sheet of card, sticky tape and scissors Quiz question: Spacecraft have many devices, but rarely microphones to detect sound. Why? Create your own orbit using a sock, tennis ball and some string. See how long it takes to orbit the further you lengthen the string« less