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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What's longer than a football field, weighs more than 450 cars, yet flies miles above Earth's surface? It's the International Space Station. In this book, you'll learn how the station was built and how crew members live and work there. As part of the Searchlight Books collection, this series explores outer space and sheds light on the question What's Amazing about Space? Fantastic photos, kid-friendly explanations of science concepts, and useful diagrams...
Publisher
Smithsonian Books/Collins
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tour of the world's premier collection of space artifacts, presented by curators from the National Air and Space Museum, chronicles the first fifty years of space achievement and exploration and shares profiles of 150 key objects.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
How do astronauts take a nap? It's harder than you think! Astronauts use many different innovations to make living in space possible. In Reaching for the Stars: Sleeping in Space, you'll discover what technology astronauts take with them to be able to live in space! From shower packs and Velcro straps, to robotic arms and astronaut ice cream, let's take a look at how astronauts eat, bathe, sleep, and play while in space! Reaching for the Stars covers...
5) Mars rovers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For so long, our neighbor in the solar system has been shrouded in mystery. Was there ever life on Mars? How can we enable astronauts to land on that planet--and return safely? Mars rovers, including the latest: Perseverance, may just provide the answers! They might even tell us if humans can live on Mars one day! Share in the joy of exploration and discovery with Mars Rovers"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Who could imagine an idea born on a space station would help sustain our planet? Astronauts, living on the International Space Station, have to protect their resources because their lives depend on it. They learn to conserve water, air, food, energy, and waste. These efforts have in turn lead to . . . innovative ideas for air quality, food production, and water purification here on Earth"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The authors of the best-selling popular science book Soonish discuss the future of space settlements, explore what would be needed to have space kids, build space farms and create nations, ultimately questioning whether or not it���s actually a good idea.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journey aboard the Vomit Comet where the students of an astronaut school learn what it is like to do this exciting job by experiencing weightlessness, getting their measurements taken for a space suit, and performing a space walk.
10) Astronauts
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers basic information about astronauts, looking at what they do, the requirements for their job, what their life in space is like, and several famous astronauts.
12) Imagining space
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ancient civilizations imagined space as campfires or rivers of light. Today, we imagine spaceships and warp drives and aliens. But what about tomorrow? Would you ride an elevator up into space?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What do you have in common with an astronaut? We use space inventions and discoveries every day! From cell phones to firemen's outfits, athletic shoes to robots, and more! In [this book], you'll discover how our race to space has improved all of these--and more!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Ars Technica senior space editor chronicles the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX, describing how, after three failed attempts, the fourth flight helped transform SpaceX from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the...
20) The space race
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
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