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"What is it like to float weightlessly in the air? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spacewalk? How do astronauts go to the bathroom? Is it true that they don't shower? Can farts really be deadly in space? Best-selling Mary Roach has the answers. In this whip-smart, funny, and informative young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars, Roach guides us through the irresistibly strange, frequently gross, and awe-inspiring...
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[2019]
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
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What skills do you need to become an astronaut? Why do astronaut trainees spend time underwater and in dark caves? And how does it feel to experience zero gravity? In this new Science Slam! title, kids will discover what it takes to become an astronaut.
9) Space travel
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2019.
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64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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This children's book on space travel is packed with inspiring stories and facts about space exploration, astronauts, and the first moon landing.
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2019.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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"How do satellites work? What is life like on a space station? Why do astronauts pee in their space suits? Discover the answers to these questions and many more in this fascinating guide to spacecraft. Includes fact-filled text, quirky illustrations, and side panels providing more information." --
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[2016]
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73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."--
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[2018]
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144 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Told in free verse, the story of the American effort to land the first man on the moon comes to life. During the two thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine days following his speech, eighteen astronauts climbed into spaceships; three of them died before even leaving the ground. Eight rockets soared into space. And four hundred thousand people-- engineers, technicians, scientists, mathematicians, and machinists-- joined Project Apollo in hopes of making...
13) Feynman
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2013.
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262 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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"In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Written by nonfiction comics mainstay Jim Ottaviani and brilliantly illustrated by First Second author Leland Myrick, Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island...
15) Space!
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2021.
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208 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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From the origin of the universe to the future of space rockets, this book about space for kids has it all. Did you know that the moon was once a piece of the Earth, and that a day on Venus is longer than one year? First published in 2015, Knowledge Encyclopedia: Space! has been completely revised and updated for 2020, with new images and information on all things space-related to send you rocketing to the furthest reaches of the cosmos. Newly updated...
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