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82) Vessel: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
After astronaut Catherine Wells's ship undergoes a catastrophic event and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her to be dead. Miraculously - and mysteriously - she survives, though everyone else on the mission is lost, as are most of Catherine's memories of her time in space. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman, and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Soar beside Black Hawk helicopter pilot turned politician Tammy Duckworth, hot-air balloonist Edgora McEwan, and medevac pilot Dede Murawsky. Meet military and commercial aviators, such as the Coast Guard's Ronaqua Russell, the first Black woman to receive the prestigious Air Medal, and Tammie Jo Shults, who successfully landed Southwest flight 1380 after a catastrophic engine failure. And reach beyond the bounds of Earth to learn of astronauts conducting...
85) Cyborg Superman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unusual solar flare damages his space shuttle and causes astronaut Hank Henshaw and his crew--including his wife--to mutate, he blames Superman and as his surviving consciousness learns to fuse with technology he vows revenge.
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xxii, 247 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II is the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the First Untethered Flight in Space is the thoroughly engrossing, extensively researched story of his inspiring life and groundbreaking...
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Language
Español
Description
Historias de niños que aman a las estrellas es un libro inspirado en esos niños que, desde ventanas, patios o camas se imaginan a los seres celestes y entablan conversaciones con ellos, desde cualquier lugar del mundo. Un Meteorito aspirante a cantante, un Cometa resfriado, el conejo de la Luna, la Ballena interestelar, el villano Cuásar y un ilusionista Agujero de gusano, entre otros personajes, son los protagonistas de estas historias que les...
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Language
English
Description
Lift off into space with George and his telescope, a fun space book for kids 5 to 7
George has a new telescope and he is surprised, when some aliens come to visit him. They take over his telescope and together they embark on an incredible adventure into outer space. George learns that the universe is a mysterious place and you will never know what you might find out there!
What does George find? And, how does he fix the space junk problem?
Get ready...
Author
Series
Monkey with a tool belt series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
Come along on an out-of-this-world journey with Chico Bon Bon in this rollicking new adventure from author and illustrator Chris Monroe.
Oh no, the Moon Malt machine at the Superstar Space Station and Snack Bar is broken! The ever-resourceful Chico Bon Bon and his trusty sidekick Clark the elephant ZOOM to the rescue....
90) Glorious
Author
Series
Bowl of Heaven volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.
91) Delta-V
Author
Series
Delta-V volume 1
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
Mae wanted to be an astronaut. She dreamed of dancing in space. She imagined herself surrounded by billions of stars, floating, gliding, and discovering. Her parents encouraged her, saying, "If you believe it, and work hard...
93) Back to Earth: what life in space taught me about our home planet--and our mission to protect it
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are all bound together on this fragile planet. When she came back to earth, she knew she had to share this vision to help protect it. Stott knows the scale of the daunting task at hand-and yet, she believes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the activities aboard the space shuttle Discovery during its historic flight in 1998 when John Glenn, at age seventy-seven, returned to space.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success -- and survival -- is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst...
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Language
English
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Description
"To date, everything written about Armstong's life and flights has been written from the outside looking in; Barbree is the only person whom Neil Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story. Working from his years of notes, and with the full cooperation of the Armstrong family, Barbree has written the definitive biography of America's most famous astronaut and one of our greatest modern heroes. Much has already...
97) Bonds of brass
Author
Series
Bloodright trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend--the man he trusts most and might even love--only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. Ettian's life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. He's spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his class. Even better, he's met Gal--his exasperating and...
Author
Series
Time twisters volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong accidentally time travels to 1869 Texas, cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the Moon, and stepsiblings Abby and Doc must untwist history and get everyone back to their own time.
Author
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.
100) One Giant Leap
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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...
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