Two Extra Balls

 The Great sea of Truth The order opens through a historical overview of mankind’s fascination with space, documenting our progress in understanding the universe. This section will highlight a key theme throughout this book: how people in different times and cultures have viewed their place in the universe. It will also spotlight many of the geniuses of science who made extraordinary discoveries about space and the universe and how they did it, usually to laughter, ridicule, or worse from colleagues or the authorities. Across the Gulf Working from the Sun out, this section offers a guided tour of our solar system, including the Sun and each of the planets and their moons, along with all the other bits of celestial flotsam and jetsam like asteroids, comets, and meteors buzzing through the solar system. Where No Man Has Gone before Moving beyond Earth’s immediate neighbours, this section looks into the wider reaches of space: moving through our galaxy, the Milky Way, and beyond, into the vastness of the cosmos, focusing primarily on the other stars and galaxies in all their glory. To Boldly Go a brief overview of the extraordinary twentieth century race into space and the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe.