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Author Skurzynski, Gloria.

Title This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth / by Gloria Skurzynski.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J 629.4 SKURZYNSKI    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department  J629.4092 SKU    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 629.4092 SKURZYNSKI    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J629.4 SKURZYNSKI    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 629.4 SKU    Check Shelf
Description 80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Audience 009-013.
Summary A history of rockets and rocket science, from the Chinese discovery of gunpowder to the development of nuclear spacecraft and rockets that sail on the solar winds.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index.
Contents Fire arrows -- The fathers of modern rocketry -- Beeps from space -- Saturn wins, Orion loses -- Return and reuse -- Success and failure -- Way to go -- Farther needs faster.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.7 3.0 136667.
Subject Aerospace engineers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Rocketry -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Rockets (Aeronautics) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Aerospace engineers.
Rocketry -- History.
Rockets (Aeronautics)
ISBN 9781426305979
1426305974
9781426305986 library binding alkaline paper
1426305982 library binding alkaline paper
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