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"With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present day Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program, a program that quickly let its people accumulate skill and prestige. Canadian astronauts have since commanded...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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.
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English
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Author Craig Nelson restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology, and execution. Through interviews, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Nelson creates a vivid and detailed account of the Apollo 11 mission. From the quotidian to the scientific to the magical, readers are...
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For thousands of years, mankind has looked up at the starry skies and dreamed about slipping the bonds of Earth. Today, humans have traveled into and lived in space, but we're still learning more about this solar system we call home, with its sun, planets, and many moons, asteroids, and comets. This book will intrigue young readers with fascinating details about the history of space travel in our solar system, from the earliest experiments and flights...
5) Mars Rovers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From the first time, a person looked up at the sky and wondered "What's out there?" humans have dreamed about exploring the cosmos.
This book is part of a series, A True Book: Space Exploration, that includes the titles Human Missions to Outer Space, Mars Rovers, The International Space Station, and UFO's. The series features the latest NASA imagery and lively text to bring the wonder of space exploration directly to readers.
For so long, our neighbor...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This book examines the benefits space exploration has brought to people and society, from medical advances and new consumer products to greater understanding of our planet and its resources, and asks, "Is the cost worth it?".
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Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Chris Ferrie has delighted children and families around the world with his unique take on science with his board book series. Now it's time for beginning readers to experience this information for themselves. From general relativity to quantum physics, from astrophysics to rocket science, Brainy Science will intrigue and teach young scientists a variety of subjects with simple, easy-to-read text. These beginning reader books include easy vocabulary,...
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This alphabetical installment of the Baby University series is the perfect introduction for even the youngest astronomers! The ABCs of Space is a colorfully simple introduction for babies-and grownups-to a new astronomical concept for every letter of the alphabet. Written by an expert, each page in this mathematical primer features multiple levels of text so the book grows along with your little mathematician. Also in the Baby University Series: ABCs...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Space is the final frontier, and these ten women have established their place in it. This collection of ten biographies features women who have made an important contribution to the exploration of space. Included are Jerrie Cobb, who could only dream of flying above the atmosphere; some of the first women in space, Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride; and members of the current generation of women astronauts such as Julie Payette and Ellen Ochoa....
11) Astronauts
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Introduces the work of astronauts, including special jobs they might have on the space shuttle and experiments they might perform in space.
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2017].
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English
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How many kids aspire to become an astronaut one day? Wouldn't it be great to float in space and do neat experiments? But before all the fun" begins, it takes an incredible amount of hard work to prepare oneself for the ride of a lifetime. Before they are sent to space, astronauts have to go through spacecraft systems training, wilderness training, underwater training, roller coasterlike flight training, and teamwork training, not to mention science,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
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1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes rockets, exploratory vehicles, and other technological aspects of space exploration, satellites, space stations, and the life and work of astronauts.
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[2018]
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English
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In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection,...
16) Grama's hug
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Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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May and her grandmother are a team, especially in anything related to science and flight, but when May becomes the first child astronaut, Grama fears she will leave Earth without a goodbye hug.
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Sourcebooks Wonderland
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Mars is lonely--his father, the sun, denies him a pet and his sibling planets will not play with him--but when rovers Spirit and Opportunity arrive from Earth, he finally has playmates. Includes facts about the solar system, Mars, and the Mars rovers.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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First edition.
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English
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"From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs--Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos--are seduced by the commercial potential of human access to space. But Beyond Earth does not offer...
19) Dangerous
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.
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Treasure Bay
Pub. Date
[2018].
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English
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In this book readers will learn all about living on the International Space Station. What do astronauts do all day? What is it like to always be floating, even when you are sleeping or trying to exercise? How do astronauts eat, and can they take a bath? What is it like wearing a 300 pound spacesuit? How was the space station built, and how do you train to become an astronaut and go into space?
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