Book
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- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Printable probes and cosmic confetti
Publication Information
Chicago, Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]
Physical Description
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Audience
Ages 5-11.
Series
Summary
"A volume explaining the research of NASA scientist Kendra Short for the creation of flexible, printed electronics, including printable space probes"--
Contents
- Destination : Mars
- Exploring the Red Planet
- Inventor feature : dreams of spaceflight
- Failing (and succeeding) on Mars
- A more flexible approach
- What is a circuit?
- Big idea : flexible electronics
- Inventor feature : women in engineering
- Making a prototype
- Inventor feature: other interests
- Inventor feature : contests
- Covering Mars
- Kendra Short and her team.
Subjects
- Space probes > Juvenile literature.
- Aerospace engineering > Juvenile literature.
- Electronic circuits > Juvenile literature.
- Mars (Planet) > Exploration > Juvenile literature.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Short, Kendra > Juvenile literature.