TY - BOOK AU - Skurzynski,Gloria TI - This is rocket science: true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth SN - 9781426307171 (electronic bk.) AV - TL781.85.A1 S58 2010eb U1 - 629.4092/2 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - National Geographic KW - Aerospace engineers KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Rocketry KW - History KW - Rockets (Aeronautics) KW - Electronic books- OSLIS KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; 009-013 N2 - 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 UR - https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/DVBNBD652724261/NGMK?sid=gale_marc&u=corvalli ER -