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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasnt just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history of rocket building: from ancient Chinese rockets, to "bombs bursting in air"...
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Image Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (270 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Take flight with legendary pioneers in aviation - from the Wright Brothers to Zeppelins to Barnstormers to the breathtaking exploits of the Record Setters, re-live the thrilling key events from the early days of aviation history.
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Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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x, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to launch the first human into space, the United States selected seven superstar test pilots and former military air fighters to NASA's astronaut class -- the Mercury 7. The men endured grueling training and constant media attention for the honor of becoming America's first space heroes. But a group of 13 women -- accomplished air racers, test pilots, and flight instructors -- were enduring those same astronaut...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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vii, 152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits, charts ; 22 x 28 cm
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English
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"The story behind the historic race to the moon, from the perspective of the Americans who lived it -- the astronauts and their families, the controllers and engineers, the technicians and politicians who made the impossible possible." --
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate...
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Library edition.
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6 DVDs (approximately 1,080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (72 pages each ; 22 cm).
Language
English
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"This course introduces principles of physics through their application to everyday life"--Guidebook.
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Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay--dearly, with both money and conscience--to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: "$20 for five minutes. I'll hold your hand in my own," one ghost says. "I'll tell you you were good to me." Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Aircraft Propulsion, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook covering aircraft gas turbine engine and rocket propulsion from the basic principles to more advanced treatments in engine components"--
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