As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
(4)
4-6Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series.
Doudna skim-surveys the technologies employed to explore space, from the first visible-light tools used by Galileo to today's X-ray, radio, and infrared Earth and space telescopes. Also included are very brief descriptions of early NASA missions, the space shuttle, space stations, and farther-reaching spacecraft. Diagrams and photographs effectively portray the various machines and the scientists and astronauts who worked on them. Glos., ind.