Pioneers in astronomy and space exploration
By: edited by Michael Anderson
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Inventors and innovators
Publisher: Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781615306954
Subjects: Astronomers; Astrophysicists; Astronautics; Astronomy; Juvenile literature; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grade 7 to 8
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Eudoxus of Cnidus; title: Aristotle; title: Aristarchus of Samos; title: Hipparchus; title: Ptolemy; title: Nicolaus Copernicus; title: Tycho Brahe; title: Galileo; title: Johannes Kepler; title: Gian Domenico Cassini; title: Christiaan Huygens; title: Isaac Newton; title: Edmond Halley; title: William Herschel; title: Pierre-Simon Laplace; title: John Herschel; title: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; title: Robert H. Goddard; title: Edwin Powell Hubble; title: Hermann Oberth; title: Jan Hendrik Oort; title: Gerard peter Kuiper; title: Wernher von Braun; title: James A. van Allen; title: John H. Glenn, Jr.; title: Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; title: Buzz Aldrin; title: Neil Armstrong; title: John W. Young; title: Michael Collins; title: Edward H. White II; title: Yury Gagarin; title: Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov; title: Valentina Tereshkova; title: Robert Laurel Crippen; title: Christa Corrigan McAuliffe; title: Sally Ride.