This is rocket science
Subtitle: the true story of the risk-taking scientists who figured out ways to explore beyond Earth
By: by Gloria Skurzynski.
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781426305979; 9781426305986
Subjects: Rocketry -- Biography; Aerospace engineers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Rocketry -- History -- Juvenile literature; Rockets (Aeronautics) -- History -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Biography; Juvenile literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fire arrows; title: The fathers of modern rocketry; title: Beeps from space; title: Saturn wins, Orion loses; title: Return and reuse; title: Success and failure; title: Way to go; title: Farther needs faster.