Mars or Bust!: Orion and the Mission to Deep Space

By Ailynn Collins

NASA's Orion spacecraft is pushing the limits of space travel and exploration like never before. The ultimate goal is a mission to Mars! Learn about the challenges that scientists, engineers, and astronauts must overcome to make this dream a reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781496665317

Ailynn Collins

Ailynn Collins learned a lot about writing from her teachers at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She has always loved reading science fiction stories about other worlds and strange aliens. She enjoys creating new characters and worlds for her stories, as well as envisioning what the future might look like. When not writing, Collins enjoys spending her spare time reading and playing board games with her family. She lives near Seattle, Washington, with her husband and loveable dogs.

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Future Space: Mars or Bust! by Ailynn Collins

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Chapter One: How Far We’ve Come

Chapter Two: Orion and the SLS

Chapter Three: Living in Space

Chapter Four: Next Stop, Mars

Chapter Five: The Red Planet

Glossary

Read More

Internet Sites

Index

Copyright

Back Cover

CHAPTER ONE

HOW FAR WE’VE COME

Fifty years ago, the first human stepped onto the moon. From 1969 until 1972, 11 more astronauts walked on the moon. Space agencies from around the world began building the International Space Station (ISS) in 1998. Since 2000, astronauts from 18 different countries have lived on the ISS while in space.

But scientists aren’t stopping there. They want to go where people have never