Have you ever gazed up at the starry night sky and thought ‘One day, I would love to visit the Moon!’?
Well, you are not alone. Because travelling to outer space has been a dream of humans for thousands of years. And rockets are one of the most important and ingenious inventions that have enabled us, finally, to get there.
Over the following pages, you will discover their strange and fascinating story, from an ancient Greek wooden pigeon and high-risk rocket-powered bicycles and chairs (yes, chairs!), all the way to the Apollo missions that put the first humans on the Moon and SpaceX’s gigantic Starship, which could one day carry the first astronauts to Mars.
On page 24, you will learn the important role that each section of a multistage…