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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender....
2) Ellen Ochoa
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet award-winning engineer and veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa--once just a girl from Los Angeles, California. The granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, Ellen would pursue a career in physics at a young age and go on to earn master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. In 1993, Ellen became the first Latina in space. As a retired astronaut, she became the first Hispanic and second female director of the Johnson...
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Language
English
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Description
When her best friend, Teo, second son of the Anand Tech empire, is framed for murdering his family, disgraced space pilot Ocean Yoon and her ragtag crew are pushed to the forefront of a high-stakes ideological conflict, which turns out to be the least oftheir worries.
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process"--
"The Fated...
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Language
English
Description
In this book, a young girl imagines that the moon is her friend as it goes through its ever-changing phases. As a waxing crescent, the moon seems like it's playing peek-a-boo. As a waning gibbous, it looks like a bag of candies and cookies. Readers will learn the phases of the moon through this wonderfully imaginative story in rhyme. This book is sure to spark curiosity and wonder in young readers and encourage them to think critically about shapes...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth, and unable to communicate with the ground in real-time, crew members will experience extreme isolation that could gravely affect their three-year journey. This Sundance-premiering documentary follows a savvy NASA psychologist tasked with protecting daring space explorers.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yasmin wants to be an astronaut someday, but after a class trip to the space museum, she's not sure she's cut out for space flight. Then a tour of the mission control exhibit gives Yasmin another idea about how her future might lift off! Bestselling author Saadia Faruqi shares another delightful story featuring Yasmin and her multi-generational Pakistani American family.
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Language
English
Description
* Editor's Pick, BookLife by Publishers Weekly
* Gold Medal, Mom's Choice Awards
I'm pretty sure I'm about to die in space. And I just turned twelve and a half.
Blast off with the four winners of the StellarKid Project on a trip to the International Space Station and then to the Gateway outpost orbiting the Moon! It's a dream come true until space junk collides with the ISS, turning their epic trip into a nightmare of survival. Alone aboard the...
10) Orbital: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
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Series
Curious George original adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When George gets a letter from the mailman, he's definitely excited about it—but monkeys can't read! He decides to write a reply but winds up spilling ink all over the floor. Trying to clean it up puts him in bubbles of trouble—and that's not the least of his worries. It takes a series of misadventures for George to discover that the letter came from a scientist who wants George to become the first monkey in space—and he's just curious enough...
12) Digital Dreams
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Language
English
Description
Is the resistance everything it seems, or is there an underlying agenda?
When Levi was selected to go to Acury once his time at Planet Camp was up, it is safe to say he was more than a little excited. Acury represented a chance to experience new things, learn from experts on the planet, and interact with like-minded individuals.
Only when he actually got there, it was nothing like that at all.
Locked doors, heightened security, and a strict schedule...
Author
Language
English
Description
Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most powerful, most inspiring heroes come together in a beautiful, exciting picture book that explores what it means to be a hero.
Carol Danvers's Captain Marvel has super-powers without equal. Monica Rambeau was a powerful woman with a powerful heritage even before she discovered her abilities. And Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel is just beginning her Super Hero journey, following in the footsteps of her idols....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Remake of the original film. After an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers--and humans are little more than slaves.
15) All Systems Whoa
Author
Series
Abby in orbit volume 3
Language
English
Description
How can Abby prove she's not a Bad Baxter, but an Awesome Abby?
On Career Day, Abby Baxter's classmates are excited to learn about all the jobs adults do on the space station. But Abby has no idea what her career should be-next to her brilliant doctor parents, she always feels like a Bad Baxter. Even worse, she makes a few mistakes that cause systems on the space station to start going haywire. Can Abby untangle the mess and find her own strengths?...
16) Mission: Moon
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Series
Language
English
Description
Abby is taking a giant leap onto the lunar surface.
On a field trip to the moon, Abby is excited to try low-gravity bouncing and lunar rover rides. Unfortunately, her friend Gracie's older sister Claire is seriously spoiling the mood with her constant criticism of Abby. When Abby accidentally gets her friends trapped in an abandoned lab, she starts to wonder if Claire is right after all. Can Abby prove her wrong, escape the lab, and do something...
17) Sally Ride
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Series
Publisher
France Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This magical biography charts the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space. It's the perfect gift for young dreamers.
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Series
Language
English
Description
George takes a giant leap for monkeykind when he gets suited up and blasts off into space in this out-of-this-world interplanetary adventure.
This lively story captures George's adventure of becoming the first space monkey from the classic Curious George Gets a Medal.
Praise for the Curious George books
"What distinguishes the George stories is where the trouble is-almost never in a person, never in humanity. George lives in a super benign...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
George is thrilled to visit the Space Center to help Professor Pizza and Professor Einstein. First up, he's making a special delivery to the international space station. Then it's time to help solve a problem with the Mars rover, and George dreams of going where no monkey (or human) has gone before-Mars! Join George on an exciting journey into outer space and learn all about space travel, gravity, the solar system, and Mars. Based on the Emmy-winning...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Dannielle, nicknamed Dannie, always wanted to go to outer space. She spent hours looking into the night sky. She went to a highly regarded university studying physics due to her love of astronomy. Upon graduation, Dannie is provided a scientific spaceship by her father's best friend who was a science professor, Doctor Raley. Dannie invited her friends and family to travel to the galaxy in search of adventure. With her sister and a team of classmates...
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