This award-winning book is an official Story Time From Space Book Selection. Space shuttle Endeavour brings its fascinating history to life through a journey to space with a young boy Jojo. Exploring space with the shuttle, Jojo learns about Endeavour s extraordinary contribution to space science, and its famous service missions including the Hubble Space Telescope. The book also features stunning NASA photos, fun facts, famous firsts and quizzes to inspire kids in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Book awards include the International Latino Book Awards, the Delaware State Reading Association Children s Choices, the Creative Child s Magazine Book of the Year Award and the Gelett Burgess Children s Book Award. It is a wonderfully written and fantastically illustrated book... This book does a terrific job of explaining the shuttle program, gravity, and Hubble telescope. It was awe inspiring to read the accomplishments from 1981 2011, thirty years of discoveries! --National Science Teachers Association Recommends Very well-structured and fully illustrated, the book also presents fascinating mission highlights about all the space shuttles. The drawings and photographs greatly enhance the text…There is a brief but helpful glossary, as well as references to additional resources for learning about space. This book emphasizes the wide diversity of training and backgrounds of Americans who have succeeded in getting to space and would be excellent for informing and inspiring any young potential astronaut. --Science Books & Films A combination of realistic watercolor illustrations and NASA photographs contribute to the overall learning experience. A book packed with information for aspiring astronauts and others interested in space exploration. --Children s Literature John D. Olivas, PhD, PE, born in North Hollywood, is a former NASA astronaut. Dr. Olivas, one of only seven Hispanics to fly in space, has traveled more than 11.6 million miles in space, on two U.S. Space Shuttle missions, STS-117 on Atlantis and STS-128 on Discovery, to the International Space Station. His other NASA missions include living at the bottom of the ocean in an underwater habitat, surviving the frozen Arctic, trekking across the mountains of Wyoming and sailing the sea of Cortez. Dr. Olivas retired from NASA in 2010 and now resides in the Los Angeles area with his wife and five children. He has shared his space stories with children both here at home as well as internationally. Now he shares one of his stories in his first book.