This is rocket science
Subtitle: true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth
By: by Gloria Skurzynski
Publisher: National Geographic; National Geographic Children's Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781426305979; 9781426305986
Subjects: Aerospace engineers; Rockets (Aeronautics); Rocketry; Juvenile literature; Biography; History
Description: A history of rockets and rocket science, from the Chinese discovery of gunpowder to the development of nuclear spacecraft and rockets that sail on the solar winds.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 78) and index.

009-013.
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.