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Space Exploration

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Astronaut

Bean, Alan, and Andrew L. Chaikin. Apollo: An Eyewitness Account. Greenwich Workshop, 1998. The Apollo 12 astronaut's exciting first-hand account.

Bond, Peter R. Heroes in Space: From Gagarin to Challenger. Blackwell, 1987. Chronological history of space exploration.

Hohler, Robert T. “I Touch the Future . . .” The Story of Christa McAuliffe. Random, 1986. Touching account of the teacher who died in the Challenger explosion.

Miller, Marilyn. One Giant Leap for Mankind. Silver, 1986. Story of space exploration; for young readers.

Oberg, Alcestis R. Spacefarers of the '80s and '90s. Columbia, 1985. Covers astronaut selection, training, and experience.

Ride, Sally and Susan Okie. To Space and Back. Lothrop/Morrow, 1986. Slim volume relates details of space travel; for young people.

Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. Various publishers, Reflections on seven American astronauts and the space program.

For younger readers

Angliss, Sarah. Cosmic Journeys: A Beginner's Guide to Space and Time Travel. Millbrook, 1998. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Berliner, Don. Living in Space. Lerner, 1993. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Cole, Michael D. NASA Space Vehicles: Capsules, Shuttles, and Space Stations. Enslow , 2001. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Davis, Kenneth C. Don't Know Much About Space. HarperCollins, 2001. An introduction to the sites and places we know exist in space, for readers in grades 4 to 6.

Dyson, Marianne J. Space Station Science: Life in Free Fall. Scholastic, 1999. A former member of NASA's mission control team explains what it is like to live in space; for readers in grades 5 to 8.

Harris, Alan, and Paul Weissman. The Great Voyager Adventure: A Guided Tour Through the Solar System. Messner, 1990. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Lauber, Patricia. Journey to the Planets. 4th ed. Crown, 1993. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Redfern, Martin. The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Space. Kingfisher, 1998. What we know about the universe; for middle school readers.

Stott, Carole. Space Exploration. Knopf, 1997. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

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Rocket

Fox, Mary V. Rockets. Marshall Cavendish, 1995. For younger readers.

Lee, Wayne. To Rise From Earth: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Spaceflight. Facts on File, 1999. Explains the principles of rocket propulsion and how spacecrafts achieve or alter their orbit.

Maurer, Richard. Rocket! Crown, 1995. For younger readers.

Miller, Ron. The History of Rockets. Franklin Watt, 1999. From the times of ancient Greece and China to the modern era, a survey of rockets and their development. For younger readers.

Sutton, George P. Rocket Propulsion Elements: An Introduction to the Engineering of Rockets. Wiley, 2000. Thorough introduction to basic principles, description of their physical mechanisms and designs, and an understanding of how rocket propulsion is applied to flying vehicles.

Winter, Frank H. Rockets into Space. Harvard University Press, 1990. History of space flight.

Space exploration

Burrough, Bryan. Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard the Mir. HarperCollins, 1998. An account of the 11 persons aboard Mir from 1995 to 1998 and the crises encountered on the spacecraft.

Burrows, William E. New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age. Random House, 1998, 1999. Excellent history of the men and women who have explored space.

Collins, Michael. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sunburst, 1976. 1994. For younger readers, the story of the first manned space flight to the moon, told by one of the participants.

Cooper, Henry S.F., Jr. Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970, 1995. A riveting account.

Heppenheimer, T. A. Countdown: A History of Space Flight. Wiley, 1997. A comprehensive, detailed history of how humans got into space.

Kluger, Jeffrey. Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System. Simon & Schuster, 1999. An account of the exciting discoveries of unmanned space missions

Kraemer, Robert S., and Roger D. Launius. Beyond the Moon: Golden Era of Planetary Exploration, 1971-1978. Smithsonian Institution, 2000. History of the U.S. spaceflights and the U.S. space program during this landmark decade; for a general audience.

Lattimer, Dick. All We Did Was Fly to the Moon. Whispering Eagle, 1985. One of the most complete histories covering the early space flights up through the shuttle missions.

Owen, David. Into Outer Space. Lowell House, 2000. Photographic history of space exploration.

Wunsch, Susi Trautmann. Mission to Mars That Thrilled the World. Mikaya, 1998. The story of the mission that placed the Sojourner remote-control rover on Mars, for younger readers.

Zimmerman, Robert. The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space. Oryx, 2000. Chronological reference with details on spacecraft and their missions; for a general audience.

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