Space

Tim Vicary

Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 3

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary.

Is there anyone who has not looked at the dark sky, and the shining points of light above us, and asked themselves questions about what is out there? Where did our planet come from? When did the universe begin? Could we live on another planet? And one question above all – is there life anywhere else in space? Begin a journey into space – where spacecraft travel at thousands of kilometres an hour, temperatures are millions of degrees, and a planet may be hard rock – or a ball of gas. In space, everything is extraordinary…

Tim Vicary

Space

SPACE

�That’s one small step for a man,’ said the American astronaut Neil Armstrong, and he walked into history – one of the first two men to walk on the Moon. More than forty years later, people still remember this exciting moment.

But our adventures in space have not stopped. Wonderful pictures come to us from millions of kilometres across the universe, and scientists find new planets, new stars, and even new galaxies. We learn more and more about the past, and how the universe began. At the same time, our spacecraft and telescopes travel further and further into space. Will it be in our lifetime that people say, �I remember when the first astronauts landed on Mars’?

Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries

В© Oxford University Press 2013

The moral rights of the author have been asserted First published 2013

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

No unauthorized photocopying

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the ELT Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer

Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work

ISBN: 978 0 19 423673 7

A complete recording of Space is available on CD. Pack ISBN: 978 0 19 423665 2 Printed in China Word count (main text): 9,311

For more information on the Oxford Bookworms Library, visit

www.oup.com/elt/gradedreaderswww.oup.com/elt/gradedreaders (http://www.oup.com/elt/gradedreaders)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cover image: Alamy Images (Space/Stocktrek Images, Inc)

The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy Images pp.17 (Jupiter and Earth artwork/ Victor Habbick Visions/ Science Photo Library), 37 (Colonised Mars artwork/ Victor Habbick Visions/ Science Photo Library); Bridgeman Art Library Ltd pp.14 (The Frost Fair of the winter of 1683-4 on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the Distance. c.1685 (oil on canvas), English School, (17th century)/ Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA), 38 (Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 1858 (oil on canvas), Keler-Viliandi, Ivan Petrovich (1826-99)/ Regional M. Vrubel Art Museum, Omsk); Corbis p.15 (Sun setting over rice field/ Yasuko Aoki/ amanaimages); NASA pp.0, 6, 47, 56; Science Photo Library pp.2 (VLA radio antennas/ Tony Craddock), 5 (Orion and Sirius over Iran/ Babak Tafreshi, Twan), 8 (Orion nebula/ Robert Gendler), 9 (Supernova explosion/ Leonhard Scheck), 11 (Solar prominence/ SOHO/ ESA/ NASA), 13 (Solar chromosphere/ Greg P