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Summary: "Using ten life-changing moments from his path to space, Astronaut Scott Kelly shares his advice for mastering fear and failure, and turning our daily struggles into rocket fuel for success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 629.45 KELKelly, Scott
Summary: The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both existential and banal: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KELLY, SCOTT KELKelly, Scott
Summary: The author describes his childhood as an average student who often got into trouble with his twin brother, and how he became a NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KELKelly, Scott
Summary: This fascinating picture book memoir about NASA astronaut Scott Kelly takes readers on a journey through his childhood as an average student to his record-breaking year among the stars. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KELLY KELRappaport, Doreen
Summary: "A biography of astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center Ellen Ochoa"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OCHShepherd, Jodie
Summary: A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JEMHerrington, John B. (John Bennett)
Summary: The astronaut provides a window into his NASA astronaut training and his mission to the International Space Station, while shedding light on some of the tasks he's completed in space and his Chickasaw heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Dog Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.4 HERAlexander, Heather
Summary: "Mae Jemison is the first African American woman to travel to space. She's also a medical doctor who once joined the Peace Corps. And a trained dancer, too! Experience all the exciting moments in Dr. Jemison's thrilling life in this exciting biography, packed with two-color illustrations and fun facts, including the secrets of NASA"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JEMYannuzzi, Della A.
Summary: Traces the life of the first African-American woman to go into space, from her childhood in Chicago through her astronaut training and first spaceflight to life after working with NASA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1998