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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Description
"The story of Mike Massimino's life growing up in a working-class family and his determination to get the education and experience that would lead to his challenging but successful rise to become a NASA astronaut"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
5) Space heroes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
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