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Is it a message from an alien? Could there be life out there? How do you find a planet in outer space? And if you could talk to aliens, what would you say?An action-packed roller-coaster ride into a dramatic treasure hunt across the cosmos, this terrific adventure is filled with the latest scientific knowledge about our Universe, including special essays from some of the top scientists in the world!

George with a gift--a book called The User's Guide to the Universe. But Annie and Eric haven't been gone for very long when Annie believes that she is being contacted by aliens, who have a terrible warning for her. George joins her in the US to help her with her quest--and before he knows it, he, Annie, Cosmos, and Annie's annoying cousin Emmett have been swept up in a cosmic treasure hunt, spanning the whole galaxy and beyond.

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SENDER ID: UNKNOWN MESSAGE LOCATION: EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 'We are going on a great cosmic journey. So listen up, Savers of Planet Earth, and prepare to meet the Universe!' George's best friend Annie needs help - fast. There's trouble with the robot her scientist father has sent to Mars and Annie has discovered something strange on the super-computer, Cosmos . . . Is it a message from an alien? Could there be life out there? George and Annie must solve some cosmis clues and take part in an action-packed treasure hunt across the galaxy! From Lucy Hawking and Professor Stephen Hawking, the most famous science genius in the world! CONTAINS LOADS OF REAL FACTS ABOUT SPACE

The first lobster Newburg for a weightless cook. The first spider web in space. The first real astronomical observatory outside Earth's atmosphere. The first shower stall for water that floats in midair. For problems cosmic and comic, the United States' first space station had to answer a lot of new questions. Including the big one: What place do people have in space? Would a long stint on a space station like Skylab suck the strength out of astronauts, leaving them too limp to flip a switch and too seasick to care? Would space become the final flyover country, a hostile zone to rush through on the way somewhere else? Or could people live and work in the alien world? Details about Soviet space stations were shadowy at best and sometimes alarming, so many scientists and citizens saw their long-term dreams for a human presence in space riding on the U.S. Skylab. Launched May 14, 1973, the space station became home to three successive crews on increasingly longer stays. During the following year, astronaut missions lasted 28 days, then 59, and finally 84 days. The 85-ton craft, shaped like an old-fashioned windmill made of space-age materials, dazzled astrophysicists with new views of the sun, sent back 18,000 blood-pressure measurements and massive amounts of other medical data, observed Earth, and finally crashed in Australia, inspiring a $10,000 treasure hunt for its pieces. 'The main thing it did was demonstrate to the American public that it was possible for people to live and work productively in space,' said Valerie Neal, curator at the U.S. National Air and Space Museum and Skylab specialist. With Skylab came a shift in attitude toward space, she said. At best, previous U.S. missions had been 'two weeks long, which were more like camping trips,' Neal said. Skylab proved 'we could set up housekeeping in space.' The Skylab mission 'gave us confidence that people can explore space,' said Arnauld Nicogossian, deputy associate administrator for life and microgravity sciences and applications at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. For much of the 10 years NASA spent designing Skylab, the finer points of housekeeping stayed low on the list of priorities, said David Compton's history of the project published by NASA. As late as 1969, the mock-up for living quarters was so stark, the NASA administrator for manned space flight, George Mueller, lamented, 'Nobody could have lived in that thing for more than two months. They'd have gone stir crazy.' To try to prevent out-of-this-world cabin fever, NASA and contractors consulted industrial designer Raymond Lowery, who had shaped many an office building and shopping mall. His many suggestions included painting the inside a pale yellow. The proposal created a small tizzy at NASA because at that point, designers planned to make the crew area do double-duty as a fuel compartment on the way into space, and the designers were not confident they could find just the right cheerful but gentle yellow that would withstand immersion in liquid hydrogen. Eventually NASA abandoned the idea of setting up Skylab's living and working quarters in a spent fuel tank, and mission planners began to attend to the crew's comfort. The interior they produced was hardly fancy, but 'You don't need palm trees; you don't need a mural -- What you do need is a window,' recalled Owen Garriott of Huntsville, Ala., an ex-Stanford University atmospheric scientist who flew on the second Skylab mission. Skylab's designers had debated that point, a dispute over expense and tradeoffs that grew so intense it rose to the level of a NASA associate administrator, who resolved that the crew would indeed have a window. Memories of the view from that window have stayed with Garriott for more than 20 years. 'I would say it's spectacular,' he said. Food also created difficulties. As designers started planning, NASA nutritionists persuaded Donald Arabian, chief of the Test Division at Marshall Space Center, to eat nothing but old-style astronaut rations for four days. Although he described himself as 'something of a human garbage can' at the beginning of the test, Arabian was sorely tried by the experience. The 'coarse granulated rubber with a sausage flavor' that passed for breakfast left an hour-long aftertaste, he complained. Even space chocolate was a misery because it had been pulverized and reformed into cubes -- which stuck to the teeth. But by mission time, the food had become 'very good,' astronaut Bill Pogue of Arkansas told United Press International. He and the other astronauts sampled 60 or 70 items before take-off and worked out menus, including prime rib and lobster Newburg, made possible by the first food freezer in space. 'We had real ice cream, not that dehydrated ice cream you buy in (NASA) gift shops,' Pogue said. NASA wanted a shower; designers estimated $3 million would about cover it. The device, a floppy cylindrical bag that astronauts stepped into and pulled up around them, flew on the spacecraft, but Garriott does not remember it as popular. He objected to spending a whole hour in the shower, much of the time spent vacuuming up all the weightless water droplets bobbing in the air. In designing the craft, waste management provoked 'the most vigorously contested point in the workshop program,' said Compton in his history. The debate lasted for several years, and Compton quoted a project engineer as saying four years after the mission, 'To my dying day, I'll always say we should have dried the urine instead of freezing it.' The resulting design had its troubles, such as foot anchors that proved useless, but 'what's on the shuttle is not as good as what we had,' said Garriott. Pogue was on the Skylab mission that figured out how to celebrate Christmas in space. Crew members pieced together food containers into a tree-shaped triangle on the wall and decorated it with the hooks that connected food packages. Pogue then discovered that NASA had provided a flat tree-shaped piece of felt but had hidden it for a holiday surprise. Finding things in general proved difficult 'as if you had your whole attic and your garage inside your house,' Pogue said. To this day, he remembers a never being able to find a 25-foot (7.6-meter) cable. Overall, the astronauts functioned well, much to the relief of ground-based researchers, said Robert MacQueen, who designed solar experiments for Skylab and now teaches at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn. Although modern scientists take it for granted that astronauts will be able to carry out scientific protocols, 'it certainly was not evident at the time,' MacQueen said. 'The major worries were the medical aspects. You can't run a sophisticated telescope if you're vomitting all the time.' The telescopes and other astronomical observing equipment on Skylab were sophisticated for their time, MacQueen said. Although scientists had launched small, limited instruments before, he called Skylab 'the first observatory in space.' Skylab marked 'a real high-water mark in solar physics,' he said, as the new vantage point revealed aspects of the sun that earthly astronomers had never seen. The missions produced 'a whole long list of firsts' and spawned hundreds of papers on such topics as the structure of the sun's chromosphere and the source of the high-speed solar wind that blows particles out of the sun. 'It was great fun to be associated with it,' MacQueen said, who along with other scientists had moved their families to Houston for the duration. The medical results of the mission were as valuable, said Nicogossian. In those days, physiologists were just beginning to puzzle out the bone loss, muscle loss, tissue swelling, motion sickness, anemia and other effects of space. Skylab's detailed monitoring of the crew provided 'some of the most precious data this country has collected' on adaptation to space, Nicogossian said. Along with the standard science, astronauts performed experiments designed by U.S. schoolchildren. One youngster sent along spiders to see if they could build webs while weightless. Astronauts reported that the spiders seemed completely bewildered at first, but after a number of attempts, began to spin structures. After the last of the three astronaut crews returned to Earth, Skylab orbited unmanned and dormant for five years. It came down southeast of Perth, Australia, in July 1979, disturbing the early morning darkness with streaks of light, sonic booms and whirring noises. A San Francisco newspaper offered a prize for the first piece of Skylab delivered to its offices within 48 hours of re-entry. On July 13, a 17-year-old Australian beer-truck driver showed up at the paper with no passport, just a shaving kit and a bag of charred objects. The bits of Skylab insulation earned the driver $10,000.Advertisement ff782bc1db