Gift Ideas for Kids Who Love The Martian
Andy Weir’s science fiction has encouraged a whole new generation of readers to aim for the stars.
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Once upon a time, we told time by the stars; now you can track the changes in the night sky on your watch. The glowing watch face makes the effect extra-cool for nighttime stargazing.
xkcd’s poster shows “the height you would have to climb upward in constant Earth surface gravity to spend the same amount of energy as it would take to escape the given planet completely.”
Give your lego space cre- ations a healthy boost of girl power with legos, including astronauts like Mae Jemison and engineers like Nancy Roaman (part of the set with the Hubble Space telescope).
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2020 The Year in Space Calendar
Never miss a meteor shower or moon phase.
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Don’t let a little thing like the laws of the universe keep you from your space dreams.
SOMETHING TO READ
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space by Mary Roach
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