This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figured out ways to explore beyond Earth
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
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Y/629.4/SKURZYNSKI,G
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PUBLISHED
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2010]
©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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