Build a Rocket

Build a Rocket is the perfect, accessible and interactive guide to rockets and their role in space exploration, with a full-scale model rocket to build included.

With this unique interactive guide to space rockets, you’ll build a model of the mighty Saturn V and learn fascinating facts about space and all kinds of spacecraft.

Build a Rocket is the perfect guide to rockets and their role in space exploration. Using the Saturn V rocket as an exciting introduction, it provides a spectacular guide to rocketry and space travel. Building a model of the Saturn V, and slotting each of the parts into place, gives you a unique, hands-on understanding of space rocket engineering.

Which astronauts reached a record-breaking speed of 40,300 km/h?

Which planet weighs so little it would float in water?

Discover the answers to these questions and more as you build the Saturn V rocket!