History of Spaceflight: Reaching For The Stars

Take a journey through time from the earliest concepts of rocketry through the evolution of spaceflight with this exciting and educational interactive CD-ROM. Every major event is covered from the Chinese invention of fireworks to NASA voyages of the future, including colonization of the Moon and landings on Mars and the terraforming of the planet. Holiday Interactive has employed the latest technology to create an outstanding program tracing the development of spaceflight and the people responsible for it. From man's earliest concepts to the spectacular German development of the V-2 rocket during World War II, this CD has it all! Witness Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and the Space Shuttle, plus the planetary spacecraft Viking, Voyager, Magellan and Galileo. See the soul-stirring Moon Landings and the great Soviet/Russian accomplishments in space: Vostock, Sputnik, Venera, Soyuz, Voshod, Salyhut and Space Station Mir. Explore future missions including Cassini/Huygens, Mars Pathfinder and Global Surveyor, NEAR, Pluto Express and Mars. Included is the best collection of space images yet compiled in one interactive CD. You'll see hundreds of images, fact-filled data screens, a Glossary of Spacecraft, an Interactive Timeline Chronology, Charts and graphics of spacecraft and more! This interactive CD is based upon Kodak's Portfolio, multi-media system for photo-realistic images of greater clarity than other CD-ROM programs. This single disc will play on both PC compatibles and Apple Macintosh computers. Enjoy hours of interactive discovery, or the option of running a fully-narrated continuous-play program of over 50 minutes in length, complete with historical audio clips, music and sound effects.