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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN • Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard
From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating...
From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both existential and banal: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth; the pressures of constant close cohabitation;...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What does it take to become an astronaut? How do astronauts train to be in outer space? Readers will learn all about what it's like to become an astronaut. Low-leveled, chunked text alongside stunning photographs will engage the youngest space enthusiasts."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper Festival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pete the Cat heads to space camp, where he floats in zero gravity, flies to the Moon, and plays an interstellar song for his fellow cat-stronauts.
10) The life below
Author
Series
Final six volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Naomi and her fellow teen astronauts investigate the fate of their predecessors on the Europa colony, back on a deteriorating Earth, Leo works with a renegade scientist to warn the crew about hostile extraterrestrials.
Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what's ahead, on Europa, could be worse. The International Space Training Camp continues to hide the truth about what happened to the last group of astronauts who attempted a similar colonization...
11) Mae Jemison
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African-American astronaut.-- Provided by publisher.
12) Space travel
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What's it like to travel through space? From take off to landing to everything in between, readers will learn the ins and outs of space travel. Low-leveled, chunked text alongside stunning photographs will engage the youngest space enthusiasts."--Provided by publisher.
14) Gravity
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of renowned astronaut and distinguished scientist Kathryn Sullivan, describing how she defied the conventions of her childhood to pursue interests previously limited to boys and how she became the first woman to walk in space.
Young Kathy Sullivan loved to explore. She daydreamed about having a pocketful of airplane tickets. She thought maybe she'd be a spy or a diplomat. Most people told her that girls don't do those jobs. But Kathy...
16) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers' quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.
17) Moonfall
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...
Author
Publisher
Mattel Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Join Malibu Barbie and Brooklyn Barbie as they meet Nadine, an astronaut! Nadine shows Malibu and Brooklyn the many ways that astronauts prepare for space travel. Malibu and Brooklyn conduct science experiments, ride in a shuttle motion simulator, try a VR spacewalk, and even eat astronaut food!"--Back cover.
20) The Martian
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars, astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.