| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Inventors and innovators |
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Inventors and innovators.
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| Audience |
Grade 7 to 8. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 136) and index. |
| Contents |
Eudoxus of Cnidus -- Aristotle -- Aristarchus of Samos -- Hipparchus -- Ptolemy -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- Tycho Brahe -- Galileo -- Johannes Kepler -- Gian Domenico Cassini -- Christiaan Huygens -- Isaac Newton -- Edmond Halley -- William Herschel -- Pierre-Simon Laplace -- John Herschel -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky -- Robert H. Goddard -- Edwin Powell Hubble -- Hermann Oberth -- Jan Hendrik Oort -- Gerard Peter Kuiper -- Wernher von Braun -- James A. Van Allen -- John H. Glenn, Jr. -- Alan B. Shepard, Jr. -- Buzz Aldrin -- Neil Armstrong -- John W. Young -- Michael Collins -- Edward H. White II -- Yury Gagarin -- Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov -- Valentina Tereshkova -- Robert Laurel Crippen -- Christa Corrigan McAuliffe -- Sally Ride. |
| Summary |
Readers chronicle the lives of individuals positioned at the vanguard of astronomical discovery, laying the groundwork for space exploration past, present, and yet to come. --from publisher description |
| Subject |
Astronomers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Astrophysicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Astronomy -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Astronautics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Anderson, Michael, 1972-
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| ISBN |
9781615306954 library binding |
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1615306951 library binding |
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