Rocket Boy
The story takes place in Boise Idaho as a young student tries to achieve the impossible by building a mock spacecraft for a school project. With the help of friends and family and even a retired astronaut, they find many parts from a junkyard. Soon the project is completed.
The Book
Rocket Boy: Spaceflight is book 1 in the series. The next one is in the planning phases. Find out more about book 1 by clicking the page in the menu.
The Authors
The book was written through the collaboration of two authors. One lives in the USA and the other in Australia. They did meet in Arizona once for several sessions. Want to find out more?
The Dream
Talon’s dream is to win at the Science Fair. But his bigger dream is to go and explore space! He takes many steps in order to achieve his dream. Will he be able to achieve space travel?
I would spend hours daydreaming about my future adventures and what it would be like to be an astronaut in my own spaceship commanding a mission to the moon or maybe even someday to Mars.
Talon, Rocket Boy: Spaceflight book 1
We looked at each other and at the exact same time we both said, “let’s build a rocket like that guy in Florida.” Yah’ let’s do it,
Talon, Rocket Boy: Spaceflight book 1
It is going to be awesome; no one will believe us that we are going to build a spaceship rocket.
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
Tom Hanks
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen Hawking
Part of life’s mystery depends on future possibilities, and mystery is an elusive quality which evaporates when sampled frequently, to be followed by boredom.”
Michael Collins
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
Brian Greene
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