"Astrid is training to go to space! But as she builds her shuttle, cooks astronaut food, and practices floating in zero gravity, Dad tells Astrid that the ship's construction is too dangerous, she's too little to cook alone, and she's not allowed to flood the bathroom. That night, when Astrid dreams she's an astronaut, the challenges she encounters are overwhelming. Astrid realizes she isn't as ready as she thought. Back on Earth, Astrid turns to...

Thirteen-year-old Houston and his younger brother Robbie dream of becoming astronauts, but when Houston is accepted to the Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program he realizes that Robbie's dream may not be achievable due to his cerebral palsy, so he makes a new plan that shoots for the stars.

Elio Morillo tenia cuatro anos cuando una serie de dificultades economicas y familiares obligaron a su madre a abandonar Ecuador con el. En Nueva York, y mas tarde en Puerto Rico, gracias a los sacrificios y el apoyo incondicional de su mama, Elio descubrio el poder transformador de la educacion y el esfuerzo, asi como de la amistad y la ayuda desinteresada de los desconocidos. Su determinacion lo llevo a trabajar en el Laboratorio de Propulsion a...

Abby is taking a giant leap onto the lunar surface. On a field trip to the moon, Abby is excited to try low-gravity bouncing and lunar rover rides. Unfortunately, her friend Gracie's older sister Claire is seriously spoiling the mood with her constant criticism of Abby. When Abby accidentally gets her friends trapped in an abandoned lab, she starts to wonder if Claire is right after all. Can Abby prove her wrong, escape the lab, and do something...

George takes a giant leap for monkeykind when he gets suited up and blasts off into space in this out-of-this-world interplanetary adventure. This lively story captures George's adventure of becoming the first space monkey from the classic Curious George Gets a Medal. Praise for the Curious George books "What distinguishes the George stories is where the trouble is-almost never in a person, never in humanity. George lives in a super benign...

Planet 51 (2009, 91 min.): When Chuck the astronaut lands on a distant planet filled with little green people, he is surprised to discover that we are not alone in the galaxy. But he gets the shock of his life when the residents of Planet 51 mistakenly believe that his presence is the start of an alien invasion of the human kind. Luckily, an alien teenager named Lem quickly realizes that Chuck is friendly and the two blast off on an adventure to try...

A magical celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing from the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Years ago there was a little boy who dreamed of rocketing to the moon, of landing on the crumbly rock and walking across the Sea of Tranquility. He borrowed library books and read how astronauts had orbited the earth and walked in space. And every night he hoped that they would find a way to land on the...

This novel "snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse...