The Book of Space Travel

Jan Van Der Veken

With beautiful, large images of space shuttles and satellites, the International Space Station and our moon

Original anecdotes and interesting facts about spacecraft and space travel

The book to have for aspiring astronauts

Get acquainted with space travel, find out how a rocket engine is controlled and discover which astronauts helped shape history. Did you know:

• that Gagarin’s flight, the first space flight, took exactly 108 minutes? Pretty short, he had food for 10 days!

• that the experiments of aviation expert John Stapp made sure that we wear safety belts today?

• that the mars rover Perseverance contained hidden morse code messages? Those NASA engineers really thought it out nicely!

Airplanes

French, German, English, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese and Russian rights sold

280 x 230 mm | 104 pages | ca. 10,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover | age group 10+ | all rights available

Very detailed and yet easy to understand (…) The exceptionally beautiful illustrations bring this non-fiction book to life in a masterful way.

Boats

French, German and Russian rights sold

Jan Van Der Veken studied graphic design and typography. He owns his own studio called Fabrica grafica in which he creates illustrations in retrofuturistic style. His work has been displayed at various exhibitions both at home and abroad and appeared in The New Yorker.