Amazon.com Review
Anyone who has ever dreamed of being an astronaut or wondered what it would be like to zoom into outer space will be captivated by the Eyewitness Space Activity File, a folder full of loose historical document facsimiles--exciting news clips, pictures of Saturn taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's wide field planetary camera, 1968 Spanish advertisements for 2001: A Space Odyssey, the first "handshake in orbit," and more. Did you know that in 1984 a hive of honeybees traveled to space aboard the U.S. space shuttle Challenger? Or that the footprints left by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon will probably still be there in a 1,000 years time? Or that a single day (sunrise to sunset) on Mercury lasts the equivalent of 176 Earth days? This exciting pack, arranged randomly to recreate a sense of true discovery for young space enthusiasts, answers these questions and dozens more. Each activity file comes with a 17-by-22-inch poster chronicling the neck-in-neck space race between the former Soviet Union and the United States to get a man on the moon, and a 16-page booklet that bubbles over with space facts. (Ages 9 to 12) --Karin Snelson
