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121) Space flight
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of space flight, discussing early technology, the race to the Moon, key figures, and the future of space travel.
124) Red dwarf II
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Entire second season of the television program about a crew of spacebums and losers having adventures while traveling through space.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
"A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth, America's rival in the Cold War claimed victory on a new frontier. The Space Race had begun, and the United States was losing. Closer to home, a decade of turbulence would soon have Americans reeling, with the...
131) A trip to Mars
Author
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A small child prepares for a trip to Mars, making sure to pack space gloves, space glasses, and space teddy.
Author
Series
NASA SP volume 2018-4041
Publisher
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, NASA History Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This is a completely updated and revised version of a monograph published in 2002 by the NASA History Office under the original title Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000. This new edition not only adds all events in robotic deep space exploration after 2000 and up to the end of 2016, but it also completely corrects and updates all accounts of missions from 1958 to 2000--Provided by publisher.
Series
Progress in astronautics and aeronautics volume 242
Publisher
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], 1962-1963.
Language
English
Description
A futuristic family whose everyday world is cluttered with gadgets that anticipated such technological marvels as the Internet and the cellular phone. George is a corporate sprocket at the mercy of his tyrannical boss ; teenage daughter Judy is boy crazy; Elroy's a boy genius; and Jane's a pretty, sensible woman capable of intervening when George gets stuck on the treadmill.
Series
Publisher
Little Mammoth Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Blast off with the astronauts of the Space Shuttle on a real mission. Experience what it's like to work and live in outer space. Learn all about the space program. Visit the launch pad, the rockets, astronaut training, and Mission Control. Discover what scientists are learning about our universe and see the world's largest radio telescope.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"'Shattered Dreams' recounts the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future spaceflight mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies"--
Series
Progress in astronautics and aeronautics volume 96
Publisher
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 830L
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon -- a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away by steady astronauts in their great machines.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
An impecunious businessman, Bedford, retreats to the Kent coast where he meets the archetypal absent-minded scientist, Dr. Cavor, who is on the point of producing a gravity-defying material. His experiments prove successful, making possible one of man's oldest dreams: a journey to the moon. The two men embark on this fantastic voyage--Bedford motivated by the prospect of wealth, and Cavor by the thirst for knowledge. However, when they arrive, they...
