This is rocket science [electronic resource] : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth /

Skurzynski, Gloria.

This is rocket science true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth / [electronic resource] : by Gloria Skurzynski. - Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010. - 1 online resource (80 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.).

OSLIS\Gale Nat Geo eBooks(2/2/23). Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 78) and index.

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.

009-013.

9781426307171 (electronic bk.) 1426307179 (electronic bk.)


Aerospace engineers--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Rocketry--History--Juvenile literature.
Rockets (Aeronautics)--History--Juvenile literature.
Aerospace engineers--Biography.
Rocketry--History.
Rockets (Aeronautics)


Electronic books- OSLIS.
Electronic books.

TL781.85.A1 / S58 2010eb

629.4092/2