The Space Place (Making Sense of Science) - Softcover

Helen Sharman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855780925 ISBN 13: 9781855780927

Publisher: Portland Press, 1997

Synopsis

Have you ever wished you could ride in a rocket and be launched into space? What could you see, and how would you live in the place we call Space? How will you cope when everything becomes weightless? Most astronauts train for two to ten years before their first space mission. Follow their training, experience the excitement of launch day and the weird and the wonderful life without gravity. In the future humans might be able to explore parts of the Universe outside our solar system. They may work in international space cities, making things to send back to Earth. We might even be able to mine asteroids for precious minerals. Driving home from work one evening, Helen Sharman, OBE, heard a radio advertisement: 'Astronaut wanted - no experience necessary'. Project Juno was an historic Russian Space mission which would provide Britain with its first astronaut. Over 13,000 people applied and Helen soon found herself among the final four, then two, candidates, at Russia's Star City cosmonaut training centre. In May 1991, she was hurtling at 18,000 mph around the earth sixteen times a day, on an eight day mission. Since her return from space Helen has become one of Britain's leading 'Ambassadors of Science'.

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The Space Place by Helen Sharman, is a marvelous first-hand account of what it is actually like to be up in space.

Written by real-life scientists, the books are bublling with the authors' enthusiasm for their subjects - in contrast to the more usual fare written by arts graduates with a sideline in information books for children... Scientists are always being told they speak a jargon the rest of us can't understand - so how have these four succeeded in writing intelligible and fascinating scripts? The key lies in their sense of science as both easy and fun, coupled with experience in addressing children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Portland Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855780925
• ISBN 13: 9781855780927
• Binding: Paperback