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Author Skurzynski, Gloria.

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

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2010]
©2010
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Description 1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Audience 009-013.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Aerospace engineers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Rocketry -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Rockets (Aeronautics) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Aerospace engineers -- Biography.
Rocketry -- History.
Rockets (Aeronautics)
Genre Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Skurzynski, Gloria. This is rocket science. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010 (DLC) 2009020386 (OCoLC)335695885
ISBN 9781426307171 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
1426307179 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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