The Resource This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth, by Gloria Skurzynski
This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth, by Gloria Skurzynski
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The item This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth, by Gloria Skurzynski represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 80 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781426305979
- Label
- This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth
- Title
- This is rocket science
- Title remainder
- true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth
- Statement of responsibility
- by Gloria Skurzynski
- Subject
-
- 1210L
- trueAerospace engineers -- Biography
- Aerospace engineers -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Biographies
- Biographies
- History
- Juvenile works
- Literature
- Literature
- trueRocket planes
- Rocketry
- trueRocketry -- Biography
- trueRocketry -- History
- Rocketry -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Rockets (Aeronautics)
- Rockets (Aeronautics)
- Rockets (Aeronautics) -- History -- Juvenile literature
- trueRockets (Aviation)
- trueScientists
- trueSpace vehicles
- Aerospace engineers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- collective biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 342668
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Skurzynski, Gloria
- Dewey number
- 629.4092/2
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Intended audience
- 009-013
- Interest level
- Grades 5-8
- LC call number
- TL781.85.A1
- LC item number
- S58 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 7
- 9
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Reading level
- 8.7
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Aerospace engineers
- Rocketry
- Rockets (Aeronautics)
- Aerospace engineers
- Rocketry
- Rockets (Aeronautics)
- Aerospace engineers
- Rocketry
- Rockets (Aeronautics)
- Target audience
- pre adolescent
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the true story of the risk-taking scientists who figured out ways to explore beyond Earth
- Label
- This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth, by Gloria Skurzynski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn335695885
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- 80 pages
- Isbn
- 9781426305979
- Lccn
- 2009020386
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)335695885
- Label
- This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth, by Gloria Skurzynski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn335695885
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- 80 pages
- Isbn
- 9781426305979
- Lccn
- 2009020386
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)335695885
Subject
- 1210L
- trueAerospace engineers -- Biography
- Aerospace engineers -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Biographies
- Biographies
- History
- Juvenile works
- Literature
- Literature
- trueRocket planes
- Rocketry
- trueRocketry -- Biography
- trueRocketry -- History
- Rocketry -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Rockets (Aeronautics)
- Rockets (Aeronautics)
- Rockets (Aeronautics) -- History -- Juvenile literature
- trueRockets (Aviation)
- trueScientists
- trueSpace vehicles
- Aerospace engineers
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