Book
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Meet NASA inventor Robert Hoyt and his team's web-spinning space spiders
Publication Information
Chicago, Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]
Physical Description
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Audience
Ages 5-11.
Series
Summary
"A volume describing the innovations of Robert Hoyt. Hoyt is developing a robotic technology called SpiderFab that builds spacecraft while in orbit around Earth"--
Contents
- The trouble with gravity
- Getting into orbit
- Inventor feature : mentor and partner
- The high cost of space exploration
- Building big, building light
- Building in orbit
- Inventor feature : the Bat Cave
- Spidery builders
- Inventor feature : the invention process
- Trusses on trusses
- Big idea : additive manufacturing
- Building a star shade
- Settling the solar system
- Robert Hoyt and his team.
Subjects
- Space vehicles > Design and construction > Juvenile literature.
- Robotics > Juvenile literature.
- Outer space > Exploration > Juvenile literature.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Hoyt, Robert P. > Juvenile literature.