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Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
NASA Takes Photography into Space considers the work of NASA photographers as they began exploring space. Using many stunning, full-page photos, it examines the photography's contributions to NASA's overall mission, including how space exploration has pushed photography technology forward.
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Physical Desc
878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the problem of space junk that clutters outer space and details the ways in which NASA and other organizations are trying to deal with and solve this problem. --
5) Saturn run
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a...
6) How to make a spaceship: a band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private space flight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
9) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 that year, our first attempt was such a failure that...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of NASA's Apollo missions by highlighting the participants and objects that came together to advance the field of space travel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the construction of the International Space Station, detailing its purpose, the methods of engineering used, and future space expeditions.
14) Dead silence
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes' Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team...
15) Gravity
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the darkness. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying...
16) Sheep blast off!
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upon finding a spaceship, sheep climb aboard and bumble around until they blast off into orbit.
17) Living in Space
Author
Series
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages: color illustrations; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated description of how astronauts live in space, especially on board the space shuttle.
19) Space
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
32p with ill
Language
English
Description
An imaginative look at space with such questions as " What if the Sun went out?" and " What if there were Martians?"
20) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase novel volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance in this new thriller from international bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister&;as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control,...
