aerospace engineering

"Engineers design our modern world. They combine science and technology to create incredible vehicles, structures, and objects. This title examines amazing feats of aerospace engineering. Engaging text explores the Saturn V moon rocket, the International Space Station, and the world's largest passenger jet. It also examines the engineers who made these projects a reality and traces the history of the discipline. Relevant sidebars, stunning photos, and a glossary aid readers' understanding of the topic. A hands-on project and career-planning chart give readers a sense of what it takes to become an engineer. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus essential facts about each featured feat of engineering. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.

"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early fluent readers to the science and engineering behind spacecraft. Includes infographics, activity, glossary, and index."--Provided by publisher.

"What do people do at NASA (and in outerspace)? Readers pick from eight different scenarios and experience "next best thing to being there yourself" opportunities for interactive career exploration. Sidebars promote additional learning activities and independent reaserch"--.

An illustrated introduction to a career as an rocket scientist, with examples of activities outside the laboratory.

Planes, trains, and automobiles—these are just some of the many achievements of mechanical engineering. This volume will show readers that they do not have to know complex equations to appreciate the impact the field has had on the world. Introduces young readers to the machines and engines that power the devices, vehicles, and appliances they encounter on a daily basis.

What do people do at NASA (and in outerspace)? Readers pick from eight different scenarios and experience "next best thing to being there yourself" opportunities for interactive career exploration. Sidebars promote additional learning activities and independent reaserch Glossary of key words; Index.

Read about African American engineers who overcame barriers as they worked to use their talents to help the world.

Discusses the history, career path, and possibilities within the aerospace engineering field.

Explores the history of the earlier, secret "space race" conducted by the U.S. Air Force under the auspices of President Eisenhower between 1954 and 1961, the goal of which was to establish either a network of unarmed satellites to give advanced warning of Soviet movements, or else hypersonic armed vehicles that could achieve low orbit for attacks. Explores the history of these endeavors and why neither was ultimately implemented before the wider known space race in the later 1960s.

Contains over three thousand entries that provide information about concepts, applications and theories, historical events, and activities related to space technology; arranged alphabetically from absolute pressure to zero-g.