"A young reader's guide to space exploration." Final Frontier is an illustrated guide to the past, present and future of space exploration. The book covers the early history of space flight: from the first unmanned missions, to the early manned flights and finally to the Apollo moon missions. Space program successes and failures are covered including the disasters that befell "Apollo 1" and the shuttles "Challenger" and "Columbia." The book explains how deep space is explored today with such sophisticated telescopes and space probes as: "Hubble Space Telescope" Manned space stations Unmanned probes such as "Voyager" and "Pioneer" Space stations such as "Mir" and "Apollo-Soyuz." The proposed International Space Station is described as well as the unique challenges people will encounter in space such as living in a zero-gravity environment. The future of space exploration is discussed including the possibility of alien life on other solar systems. Proposed projects such as an automated lunar mining operation and a scientific base on Mars are also covered. Readers will enjoy Final Frontier for its colorful, abundant illustrations and easy-to-follow text.