It'll Never Work: Rockets and Space Travel

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Have you ever wondered what made human beings think they could go to the Moon? The idea of exploring space started with fiction and science-fiction written by authors like Jules Verne and H G Wells. Little did they know that space travel would become a reality! It'll Never Work: Rockets and Space Travel explores the history of space travel and spaceships, the successes and failures that have led to the very recent Pluto flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft.

Each title in this wacky and exciting new series looks at different area of technology and engineering. Taking a chronological approach, each book reveals the pioneering ideas and scientific thinking that enabled their development as well as those that proved to be a dead end. Each double-page spread examines a particular example in depth, pointing out how people learnt from a mistake.