Popular Mechanics for Kids Radical Rockets and Other Cool Cruising Machines

Join PMKs junior hosts Jay and Elisha for a thrilling tour of underwater and sky borne transport in Radical Rockets The action begins on a Trident nuclear submarine where Jay walks over missile silos visits the ships nerve center and even steers it for a moment looks through a periscope and learns what makes a vessel that is longer than two football fields dive and surface Meanwhile Elisha takes a fantastic ride on a twowoman sub then joins her cohort at NASA for some disorienting training in weightlessness spurious motion and flight control on the space shuttle Along the way there are lessons in the chemistry of booster rockets and how astronauts find leaks via computer Theres also a chapter on remotecontrolled model submarines but for the most part watching Radical Rockets is like gaining exclusive enviable access to the biggest and coolest machines in the world Tom Keogh