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Book

Space heroes

Call Number

  • J 629.4 DOLA (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

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Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2018.

Physical Description

23 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Summary

Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Out of this world
  • Women of NASA
  • Looking at space
  • Clever computers
  • Science star
  • Amazing astronaut
  • Space travel
  • Blastoff!
  • Space stars.

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