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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
Author
Series
A lady astronaut volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Decades after her grieving father, a laid-off NASA scientist, triggers chaotic changes in his pursuit of life-extending technology, an astronaut confronts dangerous family secrets to stop a world-threatening crisis.
Author
Series
Jake Ross volume 4
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and conflicting priorities are threatening the whole program....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term space flight, the devastating effects on the body, and the necessary isolation that path entails.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Annie has a career day at her school, each member of her family wonders if she will choose their career path--her grandfather the news photographer, her father the mountain climber or her mother the basketball player--until she reveals a dream that is all her own.
7) Ad astra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Astronaut Roy McBride travels to the edges of the solar system in search of his father and in effort to unravel a mystery which threatens the survival of Earth.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author describes his childhood as an average student who often got into trouble with his twin brother, and how he became a NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jordie loves space. She can't believe it when she finds a black hole in her desk. But when the black hole starts snarfing everything in sight--including her dog--she realizes the black hole needs to go home"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hadfield takes readers into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. He developed an unconventional philosophy at NASA: Prepare for the worst-- and enjoy every moment of it. By thinking like an astronaut, you can change the way you view life on Earth-- especially your own.
11) Astro girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
After Astrid tells her father that she wants to be an astronaut, he tells her of all the things that astronauts have to do.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
223 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life--both in outer space and on Earth--in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of renowned astronaut and distinguished scientist Kathryn Sullivan, describing how she defied the conventions of her childhood to pursue interests previously limited to boys and how she became the first woman to walk in space.
17) The Martian
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
18) Passengers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Two passengers board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction, only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind...
Author
Series
Lady Astronaut novels volume 03
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
542 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable."--