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Apollo pilot
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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… |
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First women in space
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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 … |
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For Spacious Skies
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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… |
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The U.S. Space Camp book of astronauts
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Anne Baird |
Biographies of America's astronauts with a history of the space program. |
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ROCKET MAN
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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 … |
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Astronauts and Other Space Heroes FYI (For Your Information)
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Sarah L. Thomson |
its very good book u should buy it. |
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Kalpana Chawla, a life
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Anil Padmanabhan |
Biography of Kalpana Chawla, d. 1961-2003, first Indian born American woman astronaut. |
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Korolev
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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… |
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