Space Exploration
From the Series Space Innovations
For hundreds of years scientists have sought and studied new worlds beyond Earth. Author Ron Miller describes the long, hard trek from the first tentative attempts to fly rocket-powered vehicles, to the first humans to brave traveling beyond Earth’s atmosphere, to the explorers who left their footprints in the soil of the Moon. This history of space exploration will compel you to consider the future of our journey.
Format | Your Price | Add |
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978-1-58013-689-1
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$35.99 |
Interest Level | Grade 6 - Grade 8 |
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Reading Level | Grade 7 |
Genre | Science |
Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
Imprint | Twenty-First Century Books ™ |
Language | English |
Publication Date | 2007-08-01 |
Text Type | Narrative Nonfiction |
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BISACS | JNF051000, JNF051040 |
Dewey | 629.41 |
Graphics | 1-color illustrations, Full-color illustrations |
Features | Activities, Bibliography/further reading, Charts/Graphs/Diagrams, Experiments, Glossary, Index, Photo captions, Sidebars, Source notes, Table of contents, and Timeline |
Author: Ron Miller
Ron Miller has worked as a freelance writer and illustrator for more than 30 years. Many of his illustrations appear in magazines like Astronomy and Scientific American. He has also worked on motion pictures and created postage stamps. (One of his stamps is attached to a spacecraft headed for the planet Pluto!) He has also written short stories and novels and has even created a comic book.