Frank Carlson Library

Before people could explore outer space, they had to invent the vehicles that could get them there. Readers learn all about the rockets, shuttles, and space stations that sent people into space, and the amazing machines that help explore the far reaches of our solar system. Full-color photographs help highlight the coolest and most advanced space machines humans have created. Readers can even learn how to draw their own space shuttle, and take a quiz...

Explains, using drawings and diagrams, the new era of space technology that began officially in 1981, with the maiden flight of the space shuttle "Columbia," the world's first reusable spacecraft.

In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction

Event Horizon is the high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft that has mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal from the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission.

Fifty years ago, in a small, fragile spacecraft designed for only one purpose—landing on the Moon—two American astronauts prepared to fly that spacecraft from its 10 mile high orbit above the Moon down to a landing on the Sea of Tranquility. It was a sea in name only. It was actually a bone dry, ancient dusty basin pockmarked with craters and littered with rocks and boulders. Somewhere in that 500 mile diameter basin, the astronauts would attempt...

Far below the surface in the mid-Pacific, U.S. officials have isolated what may be the greatest discovery in human history. They've found a huge spacecraft that plunged into the depths--300 years ago. What is the spacecraft's origin? After three centuries, could there still be a living intelligence aboard?

Discusses the space vehicle, "Columbia," the space laboratory, "Spacelab," and other proposed space projects.

Desperate to save the human race after a comet's deadly particles devastate the adult population, scientists create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system.

"A passenger with a deadly secret. Six rebels on the run. An assassin in pursuit. When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime that will destroy anything -- or anyone -- to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But the greatest danger of all may be on their ship."...

"Blast off with Hera on a secret rebel mission!"--Page 4 of cover.