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4-6Searchlight Books: What's Cool About Science? series.
With less of a cutting-edge focus than others in the series, this introduction to space exploration gives brief, terminology-filled descriptions for topics in the expansive categories of humans in space, robot spacecraft, and telescopes. The text skips from topic to topic quickly, profiling selected space-science achievements in broad statements with little detail; images of astronauts, planets, and spacecraft are integrated into the discussion. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.