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Author
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is a biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from her family and partner, and by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, Ride broke through a quarter-century of white male fighter jocks when NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, cracking the celestial ceiling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In this encouraging nonfiction reader, children visit an actual space camp! Readers will learn what astronauts eat, where they sleep, and how they prepare for journeys into space through the help of robots and stimulators. Featuring vibrant images, informative text, and fun, interesting facts, readers are encouraged to discover what they would want to explore in space!
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
1220L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
Women scientists have made key contributions to the pursuit of science and some of the most important discoveries of all time. In Mae Carol Jemison, learn how the American astronaut and doctor chose to pursue a career in science and became the first African-American woman in space, followed by work advocating for space exploration and women and minorities in the sciences. Features include a timeline, a glossary, essential facts, references, websites,...
8) Ellen Ochoa
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Ellen Ochoa's has a passion for engineering, space, and science. Readers will find out how Ochoa used this passion to earn a doctorate from Stanford and become the first Hispanic American female in space. Learn how she uses this passion to inspire students of all ages to work hard in school and follow their dreams.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
Readers find out what it's like for astronauts to eat, sleep, and work on a manned space flight in this adventurous nonfiction reader. Children will discover what it's like to be weightless in zero gravity, how Mission control helps keep astronauts safe, and what astronauts do during their free time through vivid photographs, interesting, informative text, and stimulating facts.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five decades have passed since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the selection of its second astronaut group in the fall of 1962. Those nine men, all highly experienced test pilots, were about to participate in our greatest-ever scientific and engineering challenge: the Herculean task of flying space missions of increasing complexity leading eventually to a manned lunar landing. Counted among those nine space pilots...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
1170L
Physical Desc
152 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Ride was more than the first woman in space--she was a real-life explorer and adventurer whose life story is a true inspiration for all those who dream big. Most people know Sally Ride as the first American female astronaut to travel in space. But in her lifetime she was also a nationally ranked tennis player, a physicist who enjoyed reading Shakespeare, a university professor, the founder of a company that helped inspire girls and young women...
16) Women in space: 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
1080L
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Second Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Apollo Moon landings have been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys, and all were indelibly marked by it. Journalist Smith reveals the stories of the nine still living men caught between the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Earth's collective dreaming: we relive the flashbulbs, the first shocking glimpse of Earth from space, the sense of euphoria and awe. This was the...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Random House trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles the thirteen women, all pilots who passed the same battery of tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts, who were chosen as America's first female astronauts but who were refused the opportunity to participate.
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