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We are living in the Space Age. What do we know about

space? The Earth is our planet. It is in space with many

other planets. Scientists are still discovering new planets.

People have always seen the sun, the moon, and millions of

stars. But now space is being explored. We can learn about

the size of the planets and what it is like to travel in space.

across around back first night right second them

Key Words

Use Teacher Talk to stimulate discussion of topic.

Develop research skills based on this topic.

Use Table of Contents to locate specic information.

Refer to Glossary to clarify basic concepts.

Notice soft c sound: once space

Identify ordinal numbers and numbers as words.

Notice soft g sound: age huge danger

Identify prefix tele : telescope television telephone

Notice digraph ph : photos photographs

Promote drama, writing or art as follow-up activities.

First published in 2006 by Red Rocket Readers, an imprint of Flying Start Books Ltd. Reprinted 2007, 2009, 2016, 2017.

18 Ardern Ave, Auckland 0932, New Zealand.

story Pam Holden

Printed in New Zealand

Photograph on page 8 supplied by www.stockcentral.co.nz

All other photographs supplied by www.photolibrary.com

This book is copyright. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in

any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without permission in writing

from the publisher.

www.redrocketreaders.com

Word Count = 400

ISBN 978-1-776850-64-8

The Space Age

written by Pam Holden

Contents Page

First satellites 2

First manned flight 4

First moon landing 6

Space shuttle 8

Space telescope 10

Satellites today 11

Robots

Planet Mars 13

Space station 14

Space walk 15

Night sky 16

The Space Age started with the first

satellite. It was only as big as a

basketball, but the Sputnik satellite

flew right around the Earth. The second

satellite took a dog for a space ride!

space dog

The first person to fly into space

was an astronaut from Russia.

He flew around the earth once,

which took one and a half hours.

Then he landed safely back on Earth.

Yuri Gagarin, 1961

Three United States astronauts were

the first people to fly to the moon.

They took four days to get there.

Two of the men landed on the moon

and walked around.

Neil Armstrong

Edwin Aldrin

-

They put up a flag and took some

photographs.

After

two

and

a

half

hours,

they left the moon. They brought back

some moon dust and rocks. There have

been five more landings on the moon.

Apollo, 1969

A space shuttle is a spaceship that can

fly into space more than once.

It

is

sent

into

space

by

two

big

rockets.

When

it

comes

back,

it

lands

like

a

plane.

space shuttle Discovery

There is a huge telescope, called

Hubble, flying around the Earth.

It takes pictures of the stars and

planets to send back.

There are many satellites flying

around Earth. They send back photos

and weather reports. Our television

and telephone services use satellites

every day.

Hubble space telescope

Robots are good for exploring space

because they dont need to eat or sleep.

They arent frightened of danger, and

they can stay in space for a long time.

The

first

landing

on

a

planet

was

a

robot

that was sent to Mars in a spacecraft.

The robot was like a small car that

drove around and took pictures of

the planet.

Mars Pathfinder, 1997

Now there is a space station so that

astronauts can find out more about space.

They need oxygen tanks to help them

breathe. The astronauts float around,

because there is nothing to hold

things down.

They wear special spacesuits when

they walk outside the space station.

There is not much noise in space.

It can change from very cold to

burning hot. Sometimes they live

there for many months.

space station

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