astronautics

"What do people do at NASA (and in outerspace)? Readers pick from eight different scenarios and experience "next best thing to being there yourself" opportunities for interactive career exploration. Sidebars promote additional learning activities and independent reaserch"--.

Contains 280 alphabetized entries on topics from throughout the history of U.S. space exploration, covering major space programs, space centers, space planes, satellites, missions, and issues, and includes an annotated bibliography with each essay.

Contains excerpts from government documents and scientific reports that provide insight into the achievements and failures of the U.S. space program.

An illustrated introduction to a career as an rocket scientist, with examples of activities outside the laboratory.

Bill Nye the Science Guy answers questions about space exploration, discussing instruments used to look at the night sky, space exploration vehicles, whether people can breathe in space, and other topics.

Describes astronaut Mae Jemison's voyage to space, including training, taking off, landing, and eating and walking in a spaceship.

Describes rockets, exploratory vehicles, and other technological aspects of space exploration, satellites, space stations, and the life and work of astronauts.

Describes the first manned lunar landing by the United States and how it influenced social, economic, and political policies that shaped the nation's future. Includes color photographs, side-bars, and a time-line.

"Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as -human computers- used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African-American women who lived through the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country"--Amazon.com.