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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Apollo pilot Apollo pilot Donn Eisele In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight afte… OL19715192W
First women in space First women in space Terry Barber Reading level: 2 [yellow]. Learn about three women who had the "right stuff": Valentina Tereshkova, Sally Ride, and Roberta Bondar. The U.S.S.R. sent Valentina Tereshkova into space in 1963. Twenty … OL24265156W
For Spacious Skies For Spacious Skies M. Scott Carpenter Amid a flurry of recent accounts of the early days of the U.S. space program, astronaut Carpenter and Stoever, his daughter, weigh in with a biography (most of it written jarringly in the third perso… OL2460426W
The U.S. Space Camp book of astronauts The U.S. Space Camp book of astronauts Anne Baird Biographies of America's astronauts with a history of the space program. OL3752223W
ROCKET MAN ROCKET MAN David A. Clary Working in isolation in the decades before World War II, Robert Goddard pioneered the technical developments that made rocket propulsion feasible—but was ridiculed in the press for his “loony” ideas … OL4783491W
Astronauts and Other Space Heroes FYI (For Your Information) Astronauts and Other Space Heroes FYI (For Your Information) Sarah L. Thomson its very good book u should buy it. OL5702377W
Kalpana Chawla, a life Kalpana Chawla, a life Anil Padmanabhan Biography of Kalpana Chawla, d. 1961-2003, first Indian born American woman astronaut. OL6053463W
Korolev Korolev James Harford In the late 1950s and early 1960s when the West was stunned by the space accomplishments of the Soviet Union, the identity of their "Chief Designer" was a state secret in keeping with the tradition o… OL8226013W