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"Exploring Space"
Reviewed in: Voice of Youth Advocates (April 1, 2005)

" Not all societies were actively engaged in explorations, but most ancient people seemed to be aware that something must lie beyond familiar borders. Ptolemy of the ancient world also wondered about the sky and theorized about the movements of the stars and other bodies. In Exploring Space, Carlisle takes the reader from these early questions about the heavens chronologically through the development of rockets and missiles, moon walks, space shuttles, Mars Rovers, and beyond. In the middle of the 1960s, the race for space and the moon had turned into a heated competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, he solidified the U.S. position. Subsequent achievements led to space stations, shuttles, and unmanned space exploration as well as terrible heart-stopping tragedies. Not shying away from controversy, Carlisle calls to task the flawed corporate culture of NASA that contributed to the disasters that befell the Challenger and the Columbia. Whether money spent on such undertakings is well spent is debatable. Neither does Carlisle hesitate in purporting that recent scientific developments support a big bang theory of the universe. Compared to other volumes, Exploring Space is more technical in language and explanation but it is a strong volume in an important series."

Barbara Johnston

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