title: The Sun: Revised Edition (Out in Space)
author:  Martha E. H. Rustad 
description: ""Although the reading is appropriate for young children, the vocabulary and content are kept scientifically accurate. The illustrations explain concepts that are often hard for children to understand."
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  ## **EMPTY SPACE NEAR KESSEL**
  
  
  IT WAS DARKNESS SURROUNDED BY STARS—ONE OF THEM, THE UNLOVELY sun of Kessel,
  closer than the rest, but barely close enough to be a ball of illumination
  rather than a dot—and then it was occupied, suddenly inhabited by a space
  yacht of flowing, graceful lines and peeling paint. That was how it would have
  looked, a vessel dropping out of hyperspace, to those in the arrival zone, had
  there been any witnesses: nothing there, then something, an instantaneous
  transition.
  
  
  In the bridge sat the ancient yacht’s sole occupant, a teenage girl wearing a
  battered combat vac suit. She looked from sensor to sensor, uncertain and slow
  because of her unfamiliarity with this model of spacecraft. Too, there was
  something like shock in her eyes.
  
  
  Finally satisfied that no other ship had dropped out of hyperspace nearby, or
  was likely to creep up on her in this remote location, she sat back in her
  pilot’s seat and tried 