Description |
218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Audience |
Ages 8-12. |
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Grades 4 to 6. |
Summary |
Collects accounts of space missions gone awry at the height of the space race, from a botched space walk during the Gemini program to the famed Apollo 13 disaster. |
Contents |
The tale of the sinking spacecraft : Liberty Bell 7, 1961 -- Spin-out in space : Gemini 8, 1966 -- The terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad spacewalk : Gemini 9, 1966 -- The fire : Apollo 1, 1967 -- The unlucky mission of Soyuz 1 : Soyuz 1, 1967 -- The tumbling moonship : Apollo 10, 1969 -- The moon trip and the lightning strike : Apollo 12, 1969 -- Explosion in space : Apollo 13, 1970 -- The three lost cosmonauts : Soyuz 11, 1971 -- The lost teacher : Challenger, 1986 -- Crack-up in orbit : Mir Space Station, 1997 -- The astronaut who almost drowned in space : International Space Station, 2013. |
Subject |
Space vehicle accidents -- Juvenile literature.
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Manned space flight -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Outer space -- Exploration -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Exploration of outer space. (OCoLC)fst01353078
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Manned space flight. (OCoLC)fst01007789
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Space vehicle accidents. (OCoLC)fst01127949
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Outer space. (OCoLC)fst01243437
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Space vehicle accidents.
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Manned space flight -- History.
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Outer space -- Exploration -- History.
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Informational works.
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Illustrated works.
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ISBN |
9781984812759 (hardcover) |
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1984812750 (hardcover) |
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