Order Toll Free 1-800-8-OLIVER (1-800-865-4837) The Oliver Press, Inc. Charlotte Square 5707 West 36th Street Minneapolis, MN 55416-2510 Tel: (952) 926-8981 Fax: (952) 926-8965	Space Flight: Crossing the Last Frontier Jason Richie ©2002
	144 pages 87 black-and-white photos, drawings, and maps Reinforced library binding 7" x 9" Bibliography Index Glossary Grades 5 and up ISBN: 1-881508-77-3 $21.95	“An excellent and highly recommended instructional reference to the wonders and science of modern space exploration.” —Children’s Bookwatch Meet the space innovators in this book, including Robert Goddard, the father of American rocketry; Sergei Korolev, chief designer of Soviet rockets and spacecraft during the space race of the 1950s and 60s; Wernher von Braun, who designed the rockets for NASA’s Mercury and Apollo programs; Maxim Faget, the engineer of the Mercury capsule and Apollo spacecraft; John Houbolt, the driving force behind the method used to reach the Moon; Dale Reed, whose work helped in designing the space shuttle; and William Pickering, who oversaw development of America’s first space and planetary probes, including Explorer 1, and the Mariner probes sent to Venus and Mars.