aerospace engineering

Discusses America's first missons to the Moon, including the key physical hurdles, focusing on the engineers' work and personalities.

"In every neighborhood across the country, there's a young dreamer who looks up at the stars and wants to know more. This volume provides an essential outlet for exploration, discovery, and engagement with the cosmos for budding space scientists. Packed with activities that can easily be done at home, as well as vivid, full-color photography and graphics, this book is the missing link between a curious mind and a career as a rocket scientist. And the best part is that it's written with accessible, age-appropriate language in a clean yet captivating way"--Provided by the publisher.

This book about human accomplishments in rocket science covers the history of rocketry since the advent of rocket-powered missiles, as well as today's triumphs and our hopes for the future.

This title is all about the out-of-this-world International Space Station that has been orbiting Earth since 1998. Readers will learn all about its construction, updates throughout the years, the people who work on it, and its uses.

An introduction to the planning and construction of the International Space Station.

Text and color illustrations explore space exploration, as well as the advantages, opportunities, and mysteries resources from spaceflight provide.

"A volume explaining engineer Bruce Wiegmann's plan to create a space craft that will harness the power of solar wind to propel itself towards the edge of the solar system"--.

"A volume explaining the research of NASA scientist Kendra Short for the creation of flexible, printed electronics, including printable space probes"--.

"A volume explaining engineer Masahiro Ono's plan to create a space probe that will be able to hitch itself to an asteroid as the asteroid is traveling through our galaxy"--.

Contains approximately 2,300 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics related to space, communications, propulsion and launch vehicle technology; the space shuttle, manned and unmanned flight, materials, propellants, orbits, physics and astronomy, space centers and organizations, and other related topics.