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The Usborne Official Astronaut's Handbook

AuthorLouie Stowell

NarratorLouise Amos

Duration1h 33m

CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Science

Key StageKS2

PublisherInhouse

VersionUnabridged

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Discover how you become an astronaut, the training you must undertake, how you travel into space and what you do when you're up there. With a foreword from ESA astronaut Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to embark on a mission to the International Space Station. Published in association with the UK Space Agency.

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