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1) The Martian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat...
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Language
English
Description
"As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They had tea with Jackie Kennedy, appeared on the cover of Life magazine, and quickly grew into fashion icons. Annie Glenn, with her picture-perfect marriage, was the envy of the other wives; platinum-blonde Rene Carpenter...
Author
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure: namely, the perceptions and goals of the astronauts themselves, aloft and during certain remarkable odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner world of the early astronauts, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and their confreres, that Tom Wolfe describes with his extraordinary powers of empathy....
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Series
Curious George original adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a day of misadventures Curious George becomes the first space monkey.
Author
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Upon his return to Earth, Armstrong was celebrated for his monumental achievement. He was also--as NASA historian Hansen reveals in this authorized biography--misunderstood. Armstrong's accomplishments as an engineer, a test pilot, and an astronaut have long been a matter of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both existential and banal: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth; the pressures of constant close cohabitation;...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1978, Sally Ride, a PhD candidate at Standford University, responded to a newspaper ad to join the US astronaut program. She was accepted and became the first American woman astronaut to fly in space! Among her other accomplishments, she played tennis like a professional, was an astrophysicist who helped develop a robotic arm for space shuttles, and later, through Sally Ride Science, worked to make science cool and accessible for girls. Sally...
11) Life on Mars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
12) Moonfall
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...
13) Space buddies
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Language
English
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Description
Moving at warp speed, dodging asteroids and more, the Buddies and their new friends must summon their courage and ingenuity to launch plans for a moon landing and a rocketing trip back home. Will they have the right stuff?
14) Lightyear
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Disney and Pixar's "Lightyear"--the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy--follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure, alongside a group of ambitious recruits, and his robot companion Sax"--Container insert.
15) Passengers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Two passengers board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction, only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind...
17) A rover's story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Maybe there's a problem with his programming. Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars. But Res quickly discovers that Mars is a dangerous place filled with dust storms and giant...
18) Ad astra
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English
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Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
Author
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...
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