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"When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: 'Is it habitable?' and 'How do we get there?' To answer the first, they had to solve the second, and so began a vivacious team’s twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter. Standing in their way: NASA, fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which never saw a science budget it couldn’t cut; Congress,...
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Swept up by the European ballooning craze of the 1780s, Dr. John Jeffries longed to become the first person to fly across the English Channel. But first he had to outwit a rascally copilot, keep the balloon from bursting, and avoid crashing into the sea. The good doctor's quick-thinking solutions will surprise young readers--and keep them giggling. Orbis Pictus and Sibert Honor winner Don Brown tells this quirky true story with his usual accuracy...
805) Space tourism
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Introduces recent technological advances in vehicles for space travel, and features hands-on activities for children.
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"NASA has confirmed the existence of 5,000 exoplanets (planets that lie outside of our solar system), and that number is growing! Exoplanets, the first book of its kind for kids, is a visually packed guide to the exoplanets of our universe. You'll learn the four main types of exoplanets, techniques scientists use to discover them, the probability of finding life as we know it beyond Earth, plus detailed information about dozens of some of the most...
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Talentos ocultos de Margot Lee Shetterly, se centra en la vida de un pequeño grupo de excepcionales matemáticas afroamericanas reclutadas por el Comité Asesor Nacional de Aeronáutica (NACA) de los Estados Unidos como computistas para los ingenieros que diseñaban las aeronaves de guerra, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Trabajando en instalaciones enclavadas en Virginia, sufrieron los efectos de la dura segregación racial y aun así, destacaron...
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"Since the first space mission in 1957, there have been many pivotal missions that have made new discoveries and pushed the boundaries of our knowledge. This book revisits 50 milestone missions including Voyager's Grand Tour, Apollo 8 and the first crewed mission to orbit the moon, Valentina Tereshkova (the first woman in space), the first weather satellite, the first communication satellite that brought live television to the world, and even spy...
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Elio Morillo tenia cuatro anos cuando una serie de dificultades economicas y familiares obligaron a su madre a abandonar Ecuador con el. En Nueva York, y mas tarde en Puerto Rico, gracias a los sacrificios y el apoyo incondicional de su mama, Elio descubrio el poder transformador de la educacion y el esfuerzo, asi como de la amistad y la ayuda desinteresada de los desconocidos. Su determinacion lo llevo a trabajar en el Laboratorio de Propulsion a...
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"When author John Meurs was a nine-year-old schoolboy living in Nazi-occupied Holland, an American B-17 bomber crashed behind his house near the village of Apeldoorn. The date was Sunday, November 26, 1944. Meurs always wanted to know more about what happened in the air on that Thanksgiving Sunday. So, more than sixty years later ... he started researching the B-17. He quickly found that the bomber was part of the 8th Air Force Air Combat Command....