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1) 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
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,...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mae Jemison is the first African American woman to travel to space. She's also a medical doctor who once joined the Peace Corps. And a trained dancer, too! This biography includes special sections with additional contextual details like secrets of NASA and things women couldn't do in the 1960s and 1970s.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Rick Husband wanted to be an astronaut since his fourth birthday, but it wasn't always for the right reasons. Initially, he thought it would be neat... cool... a fun thing to do. It wasn't until he came to a spiritual crossroads and was able to give that dream up to discover the true desires of his heart before he actually got into the space shuttle program at NASA. Three failed attempts didn't daunt this driven pilot-and the fourth interview process,...
10) Mae Jemison
Author
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of the first African American woman in space, including her childhood, her education in medicine and the sciences, and her lasting legacy.
11) Neil Armstrong
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief biography of the first astronaut to walk on the Moon.
19) Mae Jemison
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs present the life of Mae Jemison and how she became the first African American woman astronaut.
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