Travel through space and explore the planets with Astronaut André Kuipers Do you need to wear a spacesuit on Mars? Can you walk on Jupiter? Is Venus really boiling hot? And what is the most special planet in our solar system? In A journey to the planets , your young astronaut puts on their spacesuit for an exciting and educational space adventure with astronaut and author André Kuipers and the Little Astronaut. At the age of twelve, author André Kuipers received science fiction books as a gift from his grandmother. Reading these, he knew for sure: one day he would travel into space. André flew to the International Space Station ISS in a Russian Soyuz rocket, where he then lived and worked for six months. At the time, his second mission was the longest spaceflight in European history. With this book, André hopes to inspire the dreamers, thinkers, doers and daredevils of the future to look beyond their own horizons. Because out there, new worlds are waiting to be discovered.