This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figured out ways to explore beyond Earth

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This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figured out ways to explore beyond Earth

(2010)

By: Skurzynski, Gloria

Nonfiction

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Y/629.4/SKURZYNSKI,G

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PUBLISHED

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

DESCRIPTION

80 pages: illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9781426305979 (hardcover alk. paper), 1426305974 (hardcover alk. paper), 9781426305986 (library binding alk. paper), 1426305982 (library binding alk. paper)

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

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

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

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