Ferrie, Chris.
Summary: Provides an introduction to rocket science, presenting such topics as lift and thrust with simple text and illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BRDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE FERLock, Deborah
Summary: Looks at the science behind rockets and rocketry, with experiments to try at home that demonstrate the principles involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LOCSlade, Suzanne
Summary: Chronicles the life of the first female rocket scientist who, chosen to create the fuel to launch a rocket carrying America's first satellite, broke gender barriers and overcame many challenges to succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MORMitton, Tony
Summary: Get ready for blast-off to learn all about rockets! Roaring Rockets follows the animal crew as they become astronauts heading to the Moon. Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love: spacesuits, oxygen helmets, the lunar lander, and much more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDDrozd, Anne
Summary: "Meet the visionary physicists, chemists, engineers, and entertainers (as well as mice, bears, tortoises, and more) who took rockets from illuminations in the sky to the most powerful vehicles ever known. You'll also find out how using a gyroscope, swinging on a swing set, and spraying water from a garden hose are the keys to understanding space travel"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
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Summary: Offers a multifaceted portrait of the visionary German scientist who became the chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich, creator of the V-2 rocket, reluctant SS officer, and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf in association with the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VON BRAUN WENHER NEUSummary: Jack Parsons is a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles who started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry. Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magic rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRBiddle, Wayne.
Summary: A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von Braun, a blinkered opportunist who could apply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 BIDMorgan, George D.
Summary: "Blending a fascinating personal history with dramatic historical events, this book brings long-overdue attention to a brilliant woman whose work proved essential for America's early space program. This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio MorganWard, Bob
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VON BRAUN, WERNHER WARRimmer, Kelly
Summary: "Berlin, Germany, 1930--When the Nazis rise to power, Jürgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Jürgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable. Yet it soon becomes clear that if Jürgen does not accept the job, their income would be put on the line, and so would their lives. Huntsville, Alabama,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIMCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RimmerNeuvel, Sylvain
Summary: "Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUNeuvel, Sylvain
Summary: "Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir in Until the Last of Me, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at the 1960s space race with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence. The First Rule is the most important: "Always run, never fight." Over 100 generations, Mia's family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUHolt, Nathalia
Summary: In the 1940s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians, it recruited an elite group of young women -- known as human computers -- who, with only pencil, paper, and brain power, helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But their hearts lay in the dream of space exploration, and when JPL became part of NASA, the computers helped send the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space HoltFliess, Sue
Summary: "Sadie Sprocket is a girl with a big dream ... to go to Mars! No one has been to Mars (yet!), so of course that's where Sadie sets her sights. She learns everything she can about the planet and space, then assembles her crew of trusty stuffed animals. Together they build a rocket and prepare for the historic journey. And then finally ... blastoff!" -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.43 VONBHolt, Nathalia
Summary: During World War Il, when the brand-new minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women--known as "computers"--who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But they were never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.4072 HOLSummary: This episode of Rockets! looks at post-WW II rocketry and the creation of the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The U.S. military developed the science and technology that would explore the outer reaches of the earth's atmosphere. This effort was redirected during the Cold War, fueled by a desperate race with the U.S.S.R. to deploy nuclear-tipped ICBMs, and later to orbit the first...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Stine, G. Harry (George Harry)
Summary: A fully updated new edition of the bible of model rocketry and the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry G. Harry Stine was one of the founders of model rocketry and one of its most accomplished and respected figures. His Handbook of Model Rocketry has long been recognized as the most authoritative and reliable resource in the field. Now fully updated and expanded by Harry's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.46 STICaramagna, Joe.
Summary: The Guardians of the Galaxy are racing to find the Cosmic Seed - an immensely powerful artifact with the ability to generate life - before the evil-hearted Thanos can. Now that the motley team has the Crypto Cube, which holds a map to the Cosmic Seed that only Star-Lord can access, the task should be a lot easier. But with secret betrayals, alien symbiotes, super-evolved animal rebels, and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of Abdo 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC MCDMian, Zanib
Summary: "Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Summary: When Rocket is abducted and taken back to his home planet Half World, the Guardians rush to the planet where they find Rocket caught up in a revolution of evolved former test subject animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of Abdo 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC MELSummary: Pig has promised to make pies for everyone, but he doesn't have enough letters to make them. Dog has a magical way to help Pig keep his promise - it's all about the letter S. Frog thinks that in order to build a big rocket he needs big, uppercase letters. But when he needs to rescue the Little Piggies in out space, he learns that r-o-c-k-e-t works as well. All the friends have a ball trying to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD WGarstecki, Julia
Summary: "Teaches readers how to make their very own stomp rockets through simple supply lists and clear, step-by-step instructions and images"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2020