This Is Rocket Science: True Stories of the Risk-taking Scientists who Figure Out Ways to Explore Beyond Earth

by Gloria Skurzynski

Hardcover, 2010

Call number

J 629.54 F

Collection

Children’s/YA Nonfiction

Publication

National Geographic Children's Books (2010), 80 pages

Description

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.

Awards

Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award (Young Adult Category — 2010)

ISBN

1426305974 / 9781426305979

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