"Fly Guy and Buzz are back with another great nonfiction book! [The author/illustrator] brings nonfiction to life in this engaging nonfiction reader! During a visit to a space museum, Fly Guy and Buzz learn all about planets, space crafts, space suits, and even dirty snowballs (i.e. comets!)! With straightforward fun facts, humorous illustrations of Fly Guy and Buzz, and vivid photographs throughout, this book is sure to be a hit with budding astronauts...

"Readers will want to grab a telescope and explore the night skies after finishing this overview of our solar system. Our solar system consists of eight planets, as well as numerous moons, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. For thousands of years, humans believed that Earth was at the center of the Universe, but all of that changed in the 17th century. Astronomers like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton proposed...

While at the beach, Geronimo Stiltonix stumbles upon a mysterious treasure map. The spacemice follow it and end up on Aquarix, a planet that's entirely underwater. During their exploration, they face fur-eating seaweed, ferocious piranha aliens, and...pirate spacecats! Can the spacemice keep the spacecats from stealing the treasure?

"A collection of stories about space missions gone wrong."--

"Simple text and full-color photographs describe eight different space robots and the work these robots do."--

"Defines through text and photos core terms related to space"--Provided by publisher. Defines space-related terms through text and photos, introducing the sun, planets, moons, the Milky Way, and galaxies.

Get ready for blast-off to learn all about rockets! Roaring Rockets follows the animal crew as they become astronauts heading to the Moon. Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love: spacesuits, oxygen helmets, the lunar lander, and much more!

Robots help us understand our universe. Some fly to distant planets. Others work alongside astronauts in space. And some drive across the surface of Mars. How do these robots work, and what are they doing today? Read this book to find out!

Examines how astronauts eat, sleep, work, and even exercise in a weightless world.

Want to go to space? Before launch, you've got some work to do! Find out what scuba diving, medical skills, and survival training all have to do with being an astronaut.