A child puts together various simple shapes to build a rocket that will fly to the moon.

This book teaches the reader to build rockets--powered by compressed air, water, and solid propellant--with the maximum possible fun, safety, and educational experience. Make: Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets. Starting with the basics of rocket propulsion, readers will start out making rockets made...

A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.

A tiny little rocket zips around outer space, flying past meteors, moons, planets, and the Sun, before it completes its mission.

The author of the Epic Space Adventure trilogy and co-host of the Spellbound podcast combines facts with digital artwork to reveal the science behind rocket technology, discussing subjects ranging from navigation and thermal control to space exploration and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

A graphic format description of the science and history of rockets and rocketry explores such concepts as gravity, Newton's laws of motion, and acceleration.

Dig for Gold. "Pat is looking for gold. What will Dog dig up?"--back cover. Go Rocket! "Bob has a rocket. He can go lots of places!"--back cover.

"Learn all about how rockets work. What are Newton's Three Laws of Motion? Why are thrust, weight and control important to rocketry? How do you design a rocket? What is triangulation? How can engineers determine the exact position of a rocket? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in-depth with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video." --contianer

"Zoom into space in this exciting new 'That's not my ...' book. Babies and toddlers with love exploring the textured patches." --publisher's website

Shares the stories of scientists throughout history who have contributed to the field of space exploration, and provides information about developments in the field.