Read, Jennifer

Summary: "Since the early days of flight, animals have helped researchers learn how to survive in the sky, and their role continues as humanity voyages into outer space. In 1783 a rooster, a duck and a sheep were placed in a basket attached to the first hot-air balloon. In the age of rockets and space travel, many more animals have travelled into orbit, and most have returned safely to earth. This book...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Formac Publishing Company Limited 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 REA

Mara, Wil

Summary: Readers will learn about some of the greatest space missions in history and find out what today's top engineers and scientists are doing to advance space exploration to new heights. They will also find out what it takes to begin a career in space exploration and how different workers can fill a variety of roles in the quest to reach distant planets and stars.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 629.4 MAR

Spilsbury, Richard

Summary: Provides an introduction to how forces and motion work in space, including why astronauts feel heavy after take-off, why rockets are long and thin, and how spacecraft orbit Earth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Raintree 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.4 SPI

Forczyk, Laura Seward

Summary: Learn from experienced astronauts what surprised them about their time off-Earth. Hear from future private astronauts how they are preparing for their trips to space. Get the inside scoop on lesser-known spaceflight training and preparations. Read the personal stories of how the breathtaking view of our planet from above, the disorientation of microgravity, and other unexpected details of space...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Astralytical 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 FOR

Lawrence, Ellen

Summary: How does it feel to work in zero gravity in a laboratory more than 200 miles above Earth? What kinds of experiments do astronauts carry out? Learn the answers to these questions and more as you get ready to blast off into space!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 LAW

Murray, Julie

Summary: This book introduces young readers to American aerospace company, SpaceX, what it has accomplished and what it plans to do in the future. Colorful photographs, a glossary, and an index are also provided.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.41 MUR

Slader, Erik

Summary: Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 692.4 Slader 2018

Furniss, Tim.

Summary: Few events in history have been more monumental than the emergence of the Space Age, which began with the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957. During the next two decades, more than 1,600 spacecraft of all varieties were launched, mostly into the earth's orbit. In addition, twelve men walked on the moon and returned home. By the end of the 1980s, there were more than 300 operational spacecraft and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.4 FUR

Osborne, Will.

Summary: Jack and Annie present information about the universe, including our solar system, and briefly describe the history of space travel and of the science of astronomy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 520 OSB

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC OSB

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 2002

Stone, Robert

Summary: In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed the nation spend twenty billion dollars to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. Stone and Andres reveal for the first time the unknown stories of the individuals whose imaginative work across several decades culminated in America's momentous achievement. They show that the moon landing-- now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary-- grew...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 STO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.45 STO

Fabiny, Sarah

Summary: "Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race againstthe Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 629.4 FAB

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.4 FAB

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Space Fabiny

Herrington, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: White Dog Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.4 HER

Ride, Sally.

Summary: Describes in text and photographs what it is like to be an astronaut on the space shuttle. Includes a glossary of terms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beech Tree 1991

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 RID

Dickmann, Nancy

Summary: Readers will get a peek into what it's like to visit the moon, climb aboard the International Space Station, and explore many other parts of space.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books, an imprint of Rosen Publishing 2019

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 523.2 DIC

Dean, Margaret Lazarus

Summary: In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 DEA

Cristoforetti, Samantha

Summary: "Experience the wonders of life in orbit with a female astronaut's incredible memoir, revealing what it really takes to reach the stars"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRISTOFORETTI, SAMANTHA CRI