LeVar experiences a colorful and exciting expedition in a hot-air balloon. He takes viewers to a hot-air ballooning event, then provides a comical look into the past at some flying machines that never made it off the ground. Finally, LeVar visits the National Space Camp where kids find out what it takes to become an astronaut.

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Feature Book:

Hot-Air Henry

A sassy Siamese cat stows away on a hot-air balloon and ends up taking a fur-raising flight across the mountains.

Author: Mary Calhoun
Illustrator: Erick Ingraham
Publisher: Morrow

Easy-to-Make Spaceships That Really Fly

Provides directions for spaceships that can be made without adult supervision from paper plates, straws, styrofoam cups, and other materials available in supermarkets. Includes suggestions for designing one's own spaceships.

Author: Mary and Dewey Blocksma
Illustrator: Marisabina Russo
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Just Us Women

A young girl and her favorite aunt share the excitement of planning a very special car trip for just the two of them.

Author: Jeannette Caines
Illustrator: Pat Cummings
Publisher: Harper Collins

The Big Balloon Race

When Ariel falls asleep in the Odds and Ends box before her mother's hydrogen balloon takes off, she almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race, but then helps her to win it.

Author: Eleanor Coerr
Illustrator: Carolyn Croll
Publisher: Harper Collins