STEM in Our World: Space Technology – Landers, Space Tourism, and More

Description

STEM In Our World is an exciting and engaging series looking at new and future technologies

Combining current science with futuristic imagination, this informative series aims to reach out to the engineers and inventors or tomorrow with STEM subjects today

Can you imagine going on a trip into space? What about flying along at 300 miles an hour in a levitating train? Or clinging onto your seat at a 4D movie? Thanks to STEM, soon you can do all this and more! Science, technology, engineering and maths are bringing new toys, tolls and technological gadgets into our everyday lives. Come and meet Professor Tess Tube, and join her STEM school, where you will learn about the amazing gadgets and gizmos that are all around us.

Someday, families might fly aboard spacecraft to reach their vacation destination. That day might be sooner than many think with companies like Space X hard at work on kinds of spaceflight that could lead to space tourism. This book explores the deep reaches of space alongside the latest high-tech developments used for space travel and exploration. Exciting photographs of this technology at work draws in readers even more as they discover the vast unknowns of space, including many curriculum-supporting STEM concepts.

Author Biography

An incredibly creative and talented author, John Wood has written about 60 books from BookLife Publishing. Born in Warwickshire, he graduated with a BA in English literature and English Language from De Montfort university. During his studies, he learned about literature, styles of languages, Linguistic relativism, and psycholinguistics, which is the study of effects of languages on the brain. Thanks to his learnings, John successfully uses words that captivate and resonate with children and that will be sure to make them retain information. His stories are entertaining, memorable, and extremely fun to read.