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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Driving home from work one evening, Helen Sharman, OBE, heard a radio advertisement: 'Astronaut wanted - no experience necessary'. An historic Anglo-Soviet space mission was to provide Britain with its first astronaut. Two years later, she was hurtling around the Earth at 29,000 kilometres per hour, on an eight-day space mission. Since her return from space, Helen has become one of Britain's leading 'Ambassadors of Science'.

Have you ever wished you could ride in a rocket and be launched into space? What could you see, and how would you live, in the place we call space? Follow the astronaut training, experience the excitement of launch day, and learn about the weird and wonderful ways of life in space. Go on a space walk to repair your spacecraft. See how the stars shine beyond Earth's atmosphere and look down on the tiny beautiful planet that is your home.

(Extracted from the back cover)

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OUR REVIEW

To the one writing these lines it always is a pleasure to note that there are people working to make adequately known to the youngest the magic of science and scientific discoveries. Portland Press has a wonderful collection of small books in which well known authors make available to the children the clues that will allow them to understand what from other viewpoints looks too complicated and for adult eyes only.

In The Space Place Helen Sharman, a British woman who has flown to space on board a Russian Soyuz capsule and who has stayed several days inside the space station Mir, is the one in charge of explaining with simple, easily understandable words, what all this about space and astronautics is in fact.

Surely most noteworthy of this very brief book and the rest of the series is the focus by the authors and the inclusion of numerous drawings that explain better than anything the apparently complex elements of a space travel.

The amount of things that can be explained in so few pages is surprising indeed: the training of the astronauts, the launching, the effects of microgravity on the human body, the activities in orbit, the future of astronautics...

A wonderful work for children. A well thought introduction for those readers that, who knows, perhaps some day will end up becoming astronauts.