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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Early humans turned what they could see above them into rich creation myths. Later philosophers created cosmologies that pushed myth closer toward empiricism. The flat disc universe yielded to celestial spheres, and the stationary Earth at the center of it all yielded to a spinning planet in a heliocentric solar system that was one of only untold hundreds of billions of solar systems in hundreds of billions of galaxies. This expansion of the cosmos...
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The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space. It was a bold step by NASA to accomplish the first American spacewalk and to extend the U.S. flight duration record to four days. This would be double the experience gained from the six Mercury missions combined.
This daring mission was the first to be directed from the new Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston, Texas....
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In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade. With just a handful of years to pull it off, NASA authorized the Project Gemini space program, which gathered vital knowledge needed to achieve the nation's goal. This book introduces the crucial three-step test program employed by the Gemini system, covering:
• The short unmanned orbital flight of Gemini 1 that tested the...
25) Missions to Mars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores scientists' thrilling quest to send spacecraft to Mars. Engaging text, vibrant photos, and informative infographics help readers learn about this important advancement in exploring space, as well as the people and technology that made it possible.--
26) Missions to Mars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores scientists' thrilling quest to send spacecraft to Mars. Engaging text, vibrant photos, and informative infographics help readers learn about this important advancement in exploring space, as well as the people and technology that made it possible.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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On February 20, 1962, John Glenn strapped himself into the seat of the Friendship 7. He was about to become the third American in space and the first American to orbit Earth. Find out more in NASA and the Astronauts, one of the titles in the Space Exploration series.
28) Our Solar System
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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In a mind-bogglingly vast universe, our solar system feels like a comparatively cozy home, perched out on one of the outer arms of the spiral Milky Way galaxy. Formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud, it is comprised of eight terrestrial and gaseous planets, several hundred dwarf planets, nearly five hundred moons, and other small bodies such as asteroid belts, comets, and dust clouds. Chock full of...
29) Our Universe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Your readers will take a thrilling and mind-boggling voyage of discovery throughout the universe with this information-packed and gorgeously illustrated volume. And when we say "the universe," we mean all of space and time and all that is contained within them, including planets, moons, stars, galaxies, matter, and energy. So this is a grand tour indeed, encompassing the birth of the universe with the Big Bang, hypotheses on its eventual demise, and...
31) Space stations
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores space stations, including Mir Space Station and the International Space Station.
32) Space Travel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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From the shocking launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik and the subsequent acceleration of the American space program to the first manned space flights, the moon landings, and the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, the history of space travel is full of fascinating stories, technological marvels, hair-raising and death-defying feats of courage, and an inspiring spirit of both adventure and discovery. This is all brought into...
33) The Stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Luminous spheres of plasma held together by their own gravity, each star is born out of the collapse of gaseous nebula and develops a core that radiates astounding amounts of energy, the result of thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium, through its interior and across outer space. Ever-expanding, the star throws off mass, which helps form new stars, while the core begins to collapse, becoming a white dwarf, a neutron star, or even a black hole....
34) Voyage to Pluto
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores scientists' thrilling quest to send a spacecraft to Pluto. Engaging text, vibrant photos, and informative infographics help readers learn about this important advancement in exploring space, as well as the people and technology that made it possible.-
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