By Jeffrey Zuehlke
A enjoyable advent to an in-the-news car, the gap travel. In easy, easy-to-understand language, this identify describes how the distance trip is embarked on orbit and the way astronauts maneuver it in house. The ebook additionally presents info at the area shuttles NASA has constructed.
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Space shuttles have flown more than 120 missions. 28 Parts of a Space Shuttle external tank flight deck robot arm middeck payload bay orbiter solid rocket booster main engines 29 Glossary external tank: the large tank that holds fuel for the shuttle’s launch launch: blasting off into space orbiter: the main part of the space shuttle orbiting: circling around Earth payload bay: the large area that holds equipment on the shuttle reentry: returning to Earth from space satellite: a machine built to orbit Earth solid rocket boosters: two large rocket engines that help push the orbiter into the sky 30 More about Space Shuttles Bredeson, Carmen.
29 by Laura Westlund, © Independent Picture Service.
Check it out to find games, fun facts, projects, activities, and more. 31 Index blasting off, 4, 5 space station, 22–23 space suit, 17, 18 space walk, 18 supplies, 19, 23 engines, 7, 8, 13 tank, 9, 12 fuel, 9, 12 wings, 6, 25 astronauts, 14–15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23 About the Author Jeffrey Zuehlke remembers watching the very first space shuttle launch in April 1981. He was a school kid living in Saint Paul, Minnesota, at the time. He has watched many launches since then. He hopes to be the first children’s book writer to fly on the space shuttle.