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What's longer than a football field, weighs more than 450 cars, yet flies miles above Earth's surface? It's the International Space Station. In this book, you'll learn how the station was built and how crew members live and work there.
Looks at the International Space Station, the work astronauts do on board, getting supplies, daily life on the space station, and possible future developments.
3) Women in space: 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures
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Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling.
Profiles twenty-three women from ten different countries whose careers span half a century of human spaceflight, including such heroines as Sally Ride, Peggy Whitson, Mae Jemison, and the women of Mercury 13.
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341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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Reveals the most unusual space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA during a time when nothing was too odd to be taken seriously, and the race to the moon and the threat from the Soviet Union trumped all other considerations. --Publisher.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Explains how early inventions, including those of the sundial and compass, as well as more recent discoveries, have helped scientists explore outer space; includes science experiments relating to these instruments.
11) Astronauts
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16 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Describes some of the equipment and activities of astronauts during space flights, in a text that incorporates phonics instruction and rebuses.
14) Discover space
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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A simple introduction to the exploration of outer space.
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"How does a space rocket work? Clever Cogz knows the answer! Join Cogz the robot dog to discover all about rockets and other amazing space vehicles. Introducing physics and engineering topics in a fun and simple way, young readers will learn all about their favorite space machines and how they work"--Back cover.
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103 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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"This book is being published in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary in July 2016. There will be a new Smithsonian exhibition, to be called "Milestones of Flight." This book is NOT a catalog of the exhibition; rather, it is a history of flight told through approximately twenty-five historical milestones"--
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