Thames & Kosmos Space Exploration: The Planets, Moon Stars, Solar System & Rockets

Blast off on a mission to explore outer space and the objects in it. Learn about rocket propulsion with balloons and chemically powered rockets. Build a telescope and star map to investigate the stars and constellations. Assemble a model of the solar system and learn about the planets that share it.

Find out how Earth€™s rotation creates day and night, how Earth€™s axis and revolution around the sun causes the seasons, and how the moon€™s rotation around Earth gives us the phases of the moon. See for yourself how meteorites formed the craters on the moon. Make a moon flipbook and a moon calendar. Build a sundial and a solar collector to experiment with the sun. Grasp a comet€™s tail and learn about how meteoroids become falling stars.

A full-color, 32-page experiment book guides your space exploration. Ages 8 and up.

• launch three types of rockets
• build a telescope and star map
• model the solar system
• investigate the revolution and rotation of Earth
• swing a moon sling
• find the man in the moon
• recreate lunar and solar eclipses
• learn about falling stars
• discover how the universe is expanding