World Space Week - October 4-10, 2015

Download a World Space Week poster

World Space Week 2015 highlights the great era of deep space discovery. Space telescopes, deep space probes and several interplanetary satellites and landers have shown us the magic, wonders and opportunities of new worlds. WSW is an international celebration of science and technology, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition.

If you would like to discover more about science and the final frontier, check out these new eBooks through the library's online catalogue:

• The Twenty-first Century in Space by Ben Evans - follows the convergence of the Shuttle and Mir programs, together with standalone missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
•  Henbury Craters and Meteorites: Their Discovery, History and Study by S. Buhl and D. McColl - The authors present previously unpublished documents covering early research at the Henbury site, south of Alice Springs.