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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: It's not just astronauts who get to travel into space anymore. Forward-thinking entrepreneurs have now made space flight a reality for adventure-seekers of all kinds. And just in time, here's a travel guide for kids to plan their own out-of-this-world journeys. Eight potential space vacations are described, one per chapter, complete with information about pre-trip preparations (like training to withstand extreme g-forces), accommodations...
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English
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It's the 21st-century and everything about the space industry is changing, and leading that charge are private sector companies including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, which are building a dizzying array of new spacecraft and rockets, not just for government use, but for any paying customer. At the heart of this space revolution are spaceports, the center and literal launching pads of spaceflight. Spaceports cost hundreds of millions...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Danish
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On a three-masted schooner packed with artists, scientists and ambitions worthy of Noah or Columbus, a crew sets sail for the end of the world: the rapidly melting massifs of Northeast Greenland. It is an epic journey, with the brave explorers on board encountering polar bear nightmares, Stone Age playgrounds and entirely new species. But in their meetings with these new and unknown parts of the world, the crew is also confronted with the existential...
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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With a cumulative audience of over 50 million viewers and shot in stunning HD, season three of this hit franchise utilizes breathtaking footage from NASA and state-of-the-art CGI graphics to bring the beauty and mysteries of the cosmos home to viewers.
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English
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Elmer, Wilbur, and a brave troop of elephants set out on a quest to find the famous Lost Treasure of the jungle. When they stumble across a beautiful forgotten temple, Elmer's friends rush inside, eager to find the Lost Treasure before them, but Elmer appears to have stopped searching.
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Shelter Harbor Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Astronomers today believe that the Universe may have begun 13.7 billion years ago, when its entire energy, mass, space, and even time, expanded out from a single point. Every scientific discovery about space and the stars their beginnings as well as our own derives from this ancient light. Jackson examines astronomy's turning points, times when years of accumulated thought converged upon one astronomer's obsession, to turn a confounding puzzle into...
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English
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George is heartbroken when his neighbor Annie and her space-scientist father move to Florida, but when Annie sends him a secret message telling him she has been contacted by aliens with a terrible warning, he joins her in a galaxy-wide search for answers. Includes scientific essays on space travel.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Along with the National Space Society, a foremost space historian and author offers an inside look at the next 20 years in space flight.
The privatization of space exploration and the future of spaceflight is examined by an expert in the field who discusses how current research in propulsion and life support systems is triggering a new space age.
35) Fleet of worlds
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Ringworld series prequels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Honors volume 1
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that?s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn?t much better than a prison cell. Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she?s headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan?a...
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English
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"Building on the first edition, this book features 330 high resolution celestial portraits selected by bestselling astronomy writer Terence Dickinson, a four-page fold-out of the Andromeda Galaxy and an illuminating narrative that brings to life Hubble's journey and the fascinating forces at work in the universe."--
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