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"Facts From Space!" is a book that you can pick up and flip to any page to learn fascinating, weird and even hilarious facts about space. It's divided into chapters that start out exploring things ...
The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia is a playful examination of the history of aviation and space exploration. It asks and answers questions about everything from the “firsts”—who was the first ...
Test your knowledge with these questions excerpted from "The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia," a volume of history-making moments, scientific facts and fun outer space odds and ends ...
Speaking of books, there are about as many incredible books on space as there are stars in the sky — well, OK, not quite as many, but there are a ton to choose from!
Source for this quiz is Space Trivia by William R. Pogue (Apogee Books Space Series, 2003). Try more quizzes here. You Might Also Like. Air & Space Quiz: Aerobatic Maneuvers and How They Got Their ...
Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. If you were somehow able to drive a car straight up at 50 miles per hour, you would reach space in ...
Lit Trivia: How Well Do You Know Books About the U.S. Space Program? By J. D. Biersdorfer Sept. 16, 2022. Share full article. See more on: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
We won’t mention that. Dean Regas is outreach astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory, co-host of the PBS program, Star Gazers, and author of the new book, Facts from Space. It’s really a fun book.
He's the author of a new book called "1,000 Facts About Space" that's aimed at children but is sure to interest and delight adult readers as well. Regas joins us. Accessibility links.
Switching out the light to ponder Europe for a few quiet moments, I find all that springs to mind is a disordered mess of cultural, historical and sensory images - most of them memories of boyhood ...
“The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia” (Smithsonian Books), edited by Amy Pastan ...