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Series
Astronaut Academy volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Language
English
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Description
Hakata Soy, having recently fallen in love, discovers that a sinister culprit is stalking the halls of Astronaut Academy, impersonating the crush-objects of students and making off with their extra hearts.
Author
Series
Astronaut Academy volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Language
English
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Description
Hakata Soy looks to make a new start at Astronaut Academy, but his past as the leader of a futuristic superhero team catches up to him when a robot doppelganger is sent to kill him.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Cal Lewis's volatile father has been picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars. This means leaving Brooklyn-- and Cal's career plans as an aspiring journalist-- to move to Houston, Texas. Now life is a media circus, and Cal and his parents struggle to be the "perfect American family." He meets and falls head over heels for Leon, whose mother is also an astronaut. As the frenzy around the mission mounts, Cal suspects secrets are being...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS--and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred...
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Elma York is on her way to Mars, but the Moon colony is still being established. Fellow Lady Astronaut Nicole Wargin is thrilled to be one of those pioneer settlers, using her considerable flight and political skills to keep the program on track. But she is less happy that her husband, the Governor of Kansas, is considering a run for President. The climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes clear as food shortages occur. Riots and sabotage plague...
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Language
English
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Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure: namely, the perceptions and goals of the astronauts themselves, aloft and during certain remarkable odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner world of the early astronauts, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and their confreres, that Tom Wolfe describes with his extraordinary powers of empathy....
Author
Series
Medusa chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Nebula Award-winning novella "A Meeting with Medusa, " this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity's first explorer of Jupiter, from two modern science fiction masters. Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. But he is no...
10) A rover's story
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Language
English
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Description
Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
12) Astronauts
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ever wondered what space is really like? In his 25 years of training for, flying in, consulting on, and writing and speaking about space, astronaut and spacewalker Tom Jones can answer that question and many others. What do you feel on liftoff? What is weightlessness? Where do you sleep in space? Can you see the Great Wall of China? Jones answers every question you have ever had about space in Ask the Astronaut. His characteristic blend of wit, personal...
15) Kalpana Chawla
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. The series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range of backgrounds and professions including immigrants and individuals with disabilities. This book examines the life of Indian American astronaut Kalpana Chawla in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps young readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes table of contents, author biography, timeline,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, refuses to abandon the research center in the Arctic when he receives news of a catastrophic event. Soon after, he discovers a mysterious child and realizes that the airwaves have gone silent. They are alone. Meanwhile, Mission Specialist Sullivan and her crew, the first astronauts to delve into deep space, discover that Mission Control is no longer on the air. Sullivan's career has cost her her marriage,...
19) Chain reaction
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
77 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the astronaut, Michael Collins, who circled the moon in the Apollo 12 space capsule while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on the moon.
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