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1) Offworld
Author
Series
Language
English
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When Commander Christopher Burke and his crew return triumphantly to Earth after a mission to Mars, they find that everyone there is gone.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"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 flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them--and their families--changed forever In an age of space exploration, we search to find ourselves. In four years Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kane, Yoshi Tanaka, and Sergei Kuznetsov...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Astronaut Clayton Anderson lived aboard the International Space Station--and while he didn't mail letters home, imagine if he did! These letters are full of weird science, wild facts, and outrageous true stories from life in space. Backmatter includes even more information on space, astronauts, and living among the stars"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Before becoming the first Native American woman to visit space, Nicole Aunapu Mann was one of the first woman combat pilots to serve in the Marine Corps. Follow her story from childhood to the International Space Station"--
Author
Series
Mousetronaut volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 670L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A small, but plucky, mouse named Meteor is sure that he can help the Space Shuttle astronauts, and ends up saving the whole mission.
9) Mae Jemison
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African-American astronaut.--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
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...
11) The darkest dark
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
44 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Young Chris loves pretending he's a brave astronaut, exploiring the universe. Only one problem--at night, he's afraid of the dark. Only when he watches the moon landing on TV does he realize how exciting the unknown can be. Inspired by the childhood of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield"--
12) Astro girl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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Description
After Astrid tells her father that she wants to be an astronaut, he tells her of all the things that astronauts have to do.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
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...
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English
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Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions more have had their Earth-centric perspective unalterably changed by the iconic photograph of Aldrin standing on the surface of the moon, the blackness...
15) A.I. rising
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a lonely voyage into space, an astronaut is teamed up with a female cyborg to fulfill his every need. But soon, his obsession with the robot endangers the mission, and himself.
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;...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Admired astronaut Scorch Supernova is a national hero to the blue alien population of planet Baab. A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy brother, Gary, head of mission control at BASA.
18) Space Dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sworn enemies Space Dog, Astrocat, and Mousetronaut team up to save the Spooniverse.
19) The life below
Author
Series
Final six volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Naomi and her fellow teen astronauts investigate the fate of their predecessors on the Europa colony, back on a deteriorating Earth, Leo works with a renegade scientist to warn the crew about hostile extraterrestrials.
Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what's ahead, on Europa, could be worse. The International Space Training Camp continues to hide the truth about what happened to the last group of astronauts who attempted a similar colonization...
20) Life on Mars
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
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