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Author
Series
Publisher
Airmont Classics
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
"As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11-- and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings -- Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes, taking humans to Mars by 2035.
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To date, everything written about Armstong's life and flights has been written from the outside looking in; Barbree is the only person whom Neil Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story. Working from his years of notes, and with the full cooperation of the Armstrong family, Barbree has written the definitive biography of America's most famous astronaut and one of our greatest modern heroes. Much has already...
Author
Series
First cat in space volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Something terrible is happening in the skies! Rats are eating the MOON! There's only ONE hero for the job, a bold and fearsome beast bioengineered in a secret lab to be the moon's savior and Earth's last hope! And that hero is ... a cat. A cat who will be blasted into space! Accompanied by the imperious Moon Queen and LOZ 4000, a toenail clipping robot, the First Cat in Space journeys across a fantastic lunar landscape in a quest to save the world....
Author
Language
English
Description
Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the...
Author
Series
Curious George original adventures volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a day of misadventures Curious George becomes the first space monkey.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley volume 3
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
9) Dragon Pearl
Author
Series
Thousand worlds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
10) The long Utopia
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father, and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
11) The long cosmos
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life?"--Page [4] of cover.
13) A kite for Moon
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.
14) Interstellar
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A group of space travelers journey through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet.
Author
Series
Freddy the pig volume 20
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Freddy the pig and some barnyard friends take off for Mars in Mr. Bean's space ship, but things go awry when Mrs. Peppercorn fiddles with the controls and they wind up in a stranger place than they ever imagined.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts offers an insider's guide to astronauting--a behind-the-scenes look at the training, the basic rules, lessons, and procedures of space travel, including how to deal with a dead body in space, what it's like to film an IMAX movie in orbit, what exactly to do when nature calls, and much more.
18) Dark star rising
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The misfit crew of HMSS Daring are on a covert mission to dismantle a sprawling pirate network threatening the empire. Exuberant after scoring a major victory against enemy pirates, the star sailing ship HMSS Daring eagerly embarks on its new mission. Until the pirate network is dismantled and its mysterious leader Dark Star brought to justice, the safety of the empire remains in jeopardy. Supported by the ship's misfit crew, Subcommander Liam Blackwood...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and Earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete...
20) Generation ship
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyger
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world's best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they've sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren't responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It's a time when the entire crew should be coming...
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