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1) Sally Ride
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A brief, illustrated biography and celebration of the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly into space as a NASA astronaut. Includes fun facts and a selection of photographs.
6) Ellen Ochoa
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A brief, illustrated profile of award-winning engineer and accomplished astronaut Ellen Ochoa, highlighting her Mexican-American heritage and the contributions she has made to American culture.
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"An astronaut is getting ready to explore a new world. Boots? Check. Gloves? Check. And a helmet, of course. They take their first step outside ... and discover a strange new world with towering hills to climb, fantastical beasts to meet, and a raging storm to overcome. Will they make it back to their ship safely? A child's excitement for a snowy day transforms a walk to school into a wonder-filled trek through an imaginary world."--
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"Neil Armstong became the first person ever to step foot on the moon. Before he made history with his moon landing, Neil was a curious kid who loved putting together model airplanes. He dreamed about pushing the boundaries of flight and studied hard in school to achieve his goals. Explore how Neil went from being a young boy to one of the most famous astronauts in the entire world"--Provided by publisher.
10) Mae Jemison
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Chronicles the life of Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to become an astronaut, and details her early life, education and training, and career as an astronaut. Explores her commitment to helping children achieve their dreams through the nonprofit organization, The Earth We Share. Includes black-and-white photographs, a timeline, and additional resources.
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Provides an overview of the traits and skills needed to become an astronaut, including working hard while remaining calm, being organized, and telling the truth. Encourages kids to practice these traits in preparation to become an astronaut. Highlights assorted astronauts and lists little-known facts about them.
12) Pop-up space
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Pop-up images depict outer space and features of our solar system.
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"A struggling event planner and a sinfully hot astronaut must decide if their fake relationship is worth a shot at happily-ever-after, in this starry debut. Risk-averse event planner Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. With no choice but to gamble on her shaky start-up, the last thing she needed was to run into her smug ex and his new, less complicated girlfriend at Amerie's favorite coffee shop. Panicked, she pretends...
15) Ocean's Godori
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"Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little...
16) Rocketship X-M
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Four men and one woman take off to the Moon but are knocked off course by a meteor shower. They are forced to land on Mars, a planet devastated by atomic warfare and populated by deadly radiation-scarred mutants.
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In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth, and unable to communicate with the ground in real-time, crew members will experience extreme isolation that could gravely affect their three-year journey. This Sundance-premiering documentary follows a savvy NASA psychologist tasked with protecting daring space explorers.
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"The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history. It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men--already experts in their fields--crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John Glenn was an ambitious operations officer with fifty-nine...
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" ... courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian [are] a seemingly perfect couple whose lives are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes. But neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives in this heart-stopping psychological thriller"--Container.