All About Space (Scholastic First Encyclopedia)
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Rating | : | 4.43 (955 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0590104713 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-12-16 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
All About Space (Dictionary) A Customer This book was a great source of information on, well, everything. It taught me all the words I didn't understand such as: RCS, and MMU.You look them up. I read a lot of space books and most of them, well, are just to confusing. This book gives all the definitions in plain english. In ending I have to sayGO BUY THIS BOOK.Thank You For Your T
Introduces space by explaining such terms as the universe, solar system, planets, meteors, space stations, and satellites.
The lengthy glossary and detailed index will help young inquirers, as will frequent cross-references to related spreads both in this and the series five previous volumes (all ). This book is a quick scan, adequate for elementary reference needs, though marred by the absence of a bibliography or list of Web sites.John Peters, New York Public Library Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. From School Library JournalGr 2-5Taking up an unusually wide range of topics for a book of this length and reading level, Becklake provides single-spread discussions of several aspects of space travel and exploration, as well as the sun and planets, stars, constellations, and telescopes. The level of detail is such that readers do not get One small step, or even Neil Armst