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30-Second Space Travel

50 Key Ideas, Inventions, and Destinations that have Inspired Humanity

Karen Masters, Charles Liu & Allen Liu

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30-Second Space Travel uses a team of expert astronomers to hand-pick the 50 most exciting topics and essential concepts in the field of space exploration and break down each subject into an easily accessible summary that takes just half a minute to understand.

Beginning with Galileo and the early telescope explorers of the Renaissance, via the physics of orbital mechanics and the Apollo and Sputnik missions of the Space Race, and on to a future of space tourism and planetary colonisation, this book will open a whole universe of space travel and leave you eager to research the field in more depth.