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Author
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Keith...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Ride became the first American woman to orbit Earth in 1983. She later worked to encourage young people to pursue science. Readers will be inspired by her fascinating story."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edwards and Harris discuss the critical contributions black women made to NASA in the 1950s. They performed by hand the calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Their efforts made it possible for young black women of subsequent generations to become the mathematicians and astrophysicists of today.--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
The inspiring story of mathematician Katherine Johnson - made famous by the award-winning film Hidden Figures - who counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon! Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn't have the same rights as others - as wrong as 5+5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women could only be teachers or nurses - as wrong as 10-5=3....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of Mike Massimino's life growing up in a working-class family and his determination to get the education and experience that would lead to his challenging but successful rise to become a NASA astronaut"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes a fresh look at the American space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and the race to the moon. Just months after being elected President of the United States, John F. Kennedy made an astonishing announcement to the nation: we would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing epic of contemporary history,...
9) Sally Ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
NC 1040L
Physical Desc
57 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the first American woman in space, Sally Ride broke barriers and made her dreams come true. But she wanted to do even more! After leaving NASA, she created science and engineering programs that would help other girls and women make their dreams come true as well" --
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1100L
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon. First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legendary Margaret Hamilton, and detailed science populate the pages of this remarkable biography. In 1969, mankind successfully left our atmosphere and landed on the moon. It took countless hours of calculations, training, wonder, and sacrifice from all of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Pengion Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the lives and accomplishments of the Wright brothers, high school dropouts from Dayton, Ohio, who started out repairing bicycles and went on to build and fly the first successful airplane.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the celebrated 1927 New York-to-Paris flight of Charles A. Lindbergh, which was the first transatlantic solo flight in history, as well as the first non-stop flight between the two cities.
15) Sally Ride
Author
Series
Publisher
France Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This magical biography charts the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space. It's the perfect gift for young dreamers.
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Young readers' edition.
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's...
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A volume explaining the research of NASA scientist Kendra Short for the creation of flexible, printed electronics, including printable space probes"--
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A volume describing the innovations of Robert Hoyt. Hoyt is developing a robotic technology called SpiderFab that builds spacecraft while in orbit around Earth"--
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A volume explaining engineer Masahiro Ono's plan to create a space probe that will be able to hitch itself to an asteroid as the asteroid is traveling through our galaxy" --
Author
Publisher
Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Wright Brothers are famous for their role in the history of flight! Kids can read this book to find out more about the Wright Brothers and how they flew the first airplane. They will learn how the Wright Brothers started a bicycle shop first and how their first flight at Kitty Hawk went" --