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

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Skurzynski, Gloria

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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (80 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.)ISBN:

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

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: This is rocket science.DDC classification:

629.4092/2 22

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TL781.85.A1 S58 2010eb

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Cengage

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.

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.

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OSLIS\Gale Nat Geo eBooks(2/2/23).

009-013.

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.

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.

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