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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
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Language
English
Description
Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure: namely, the perceptions and goals of the astronauts themselves, aloft and during certain remarkable odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner world of the early astronauts, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and their confreres, that Tom Wolfe describes with his extraordinary powers of empathy....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Description
Mary Roach explores the strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? Have sex? Smell flowers? What happens if you vomit...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride's family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite.
520 A member of the first astronaut class to include women, Ride broke through a quarter-century of white male fighter jocks when NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, cracking the celestial ceiling...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
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...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
I Walked on the Moon. This is my journey. It didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. It began the day I was born -- Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., whom everyone called Buzz. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of determination and believing that any goal is possible -- from riding a bike alone across the George Washington Bridge at age ten to making a footprint on the...
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Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Moving at warp speed, dodging asteroids and more, the Buddies and their new friends must summon their courage and ingenuity to launch plans for a moon landing and a rocketing trip back home. Will they have the right stuff?
10) Astronauts
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how astronauts are trained and how they live and work in space. Discusses some famous male and female astronauts.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of women who have dared to challenge prejudices and rules to take their place in the skies--from Katherine Wright and Bessie Coleman to Jackie Cochran, Shannon Lucid, and Eileen Collins.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts offers an insider's guide to astronauting--a behind-the-scenes look at the training, the basic rules, lessons, and procedures of space travel, including how to deal with a dead body in space, what it's like to film an IMAX movie in orbit, what exactly to do when nature calls, and much more.
Author
Series
Martian volume 1
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Mark Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his ingenuity in unique ways.
Publisher
ZeeKid Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Six astronauts. Two pets. One impostor ... On the state-of-the-art spaceship Gos, everything is carefully controlled by a crew of top-notch astronauts who each excel at their duties. That's why it's so puzzling when things start to go terribly wrong. Crew members are being attacked one by one, and it's clear the impostor won't stop until no one on the Gos is left standing. Can the crew find the culprit and put a stop to the impostor's nefarious plan--or...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ten astronauts. An impostor determined to kill them all. Welcome to the deadliest spaceship of all time. The intrigue of everyone's favorite video game comes to life in this unofficial Among Us adventure. V is a young astronaut ready for any challenge that comes his way. His next assignment: locate and repair the Skeld, a well-known international spaceship that has been navigating on pilot mode for years. Ten astronauts from around the world are...
20) One giant leap
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An astronaut is getting ready to explore a new world. Boots? Check. Gloves? Check. And a helmet, of course. They take their first step outside ... and discover a strange new world with towering hills to climb, fantastical beasts to meet, and a raging storm to overcome. Will they make it back to their ship safely? A child's excitement for a snowy day transforms a walk to school into a wonder-filled trek through an imaginary world."--
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