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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
3) Falling
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Thirty minutes before a flight to New York, the family of the pilot is kidnapped and in order for them to live, all 143 passengers onboard must die in the first novel by a former flight attendant.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle. When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots—a group then made up exclusively of men—had the right stuff. It was an era in which...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have applications that impact many aspects of people's lives. Since Amazon announced it would start using drones in its daily operations, all eyes have been on the growing commercial drones market. Readers will learn the interesting facts and figures about commercial drones, including how this technology works and how it's used. Science, engineering, and technology topics support elementary STEM concepts....
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the most unusual space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA during a time when nothing was too odd to be taken seriously, and the race to the moon and the threat from the Soviet Union trumped all other considerations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of rocket development from early Chinese fire arrows to modern-day space shuttles, discussing the science behind rocket flight while outlining projects that use the forces of thrust, gravity, lift, and drag.
15) Flying machine
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1990-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A photo essay tracing the history and development of aircraft from hot-air balloons to jetliners. Includes information on the principles of flight and the inner workings of various flying machines.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the "Bomber Mafia", asked:...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this easy-to-follow guide, Mark Vanhoenacker covers every step in the process of flying a plane - from approach to touchdown, through the control panel and cockpit - to demystify the magic of flight."--Provided by publisher.
"Take a seat—the captain’s seat, that is—and relax. You’re about to land a Boeing 747. The mystery of flight is magical; the reality, still more so—from the physics that keeps a 450-ton...
19) Go, Otto, go!
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Otto the robot builds a spaceship to take him home.
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