This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth / by Gloria Skurzynski.
Skurzynski, Gloria.
2010
TL781.85.A1 S58 2010 (Mapit)
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This is rocket science : true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth / by Gloria Skurzynski.
Author
Skurzynski, Gloria.
ISBN
9781426305986 (alk. paper)
1426305982 (alk. paper)
9781426305979
1426305974
Publication Details
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.
Language
English
Description
80 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Call Number
TL781.85.A1 S58 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.4092/2
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, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
009-013.
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