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21) Astro girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After Astrid tells her father that she wants to be an astronaut, he tells her of all the things that astronauts have to do.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no...
25) Orbital
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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
Series
Lady Astronaut novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
27) Aftermath
Author
Series
Sirantha Jax volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sirantha Jax has the right genesones that enable her to "jump" faster-than-light ships through grimspace. But its also in her genetic makeup to go it alone. Its a character trait that has gotten her intoand out ofhot water time and time again, but now shes caused one of the most horrific events in military historyDuring the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, Sirantha went AWOL and shifted...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A tense and thrilling sci-fi adventure of space exploration and first contact, perfect for fans of The Martian, Arrival, and Interstellar. Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she now lives in semiretirement, convinced her days in space are over. She's wrong. A large alien object has entered the solar system and is now poised above the Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate...
30) Once upon a toad
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
When her mother goes on a NASA mission, Cat Starr is sent to live with her father, stepsister Olivia, and younger brother Geoffrey, but interference by her inept fairy godmother causes toads to appear when Cat speaks and gems to fall from Olivia's mouth, bringing one to the attention of jewel thieves and the other to a secret government laboratory.
32) Fluency
Author
Publisher
Blue Bedlam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960s. They kept the Target under intense surveillance for decades, letting the public believe they were exploring the solar system, while they worked feverishly to refine the technology needed to reach it.
Author
Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and Emil Karpov lead an investigation for clues that might link the disappearance of a cosmonaut, the theft of the negatives of a Russian epic film, and the murder of the director of a center for paranormal research.
Author
Series
Lady Astronaut novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable." --
Elma York is on her way to Mars, but the Moon colony is still being established. Fellow Lady Astronaut Nicole Wargin is thrilled to be one of those pioneer settlers, using her considerable flight...
36) Astronaut Annie
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Annie has a career day at her school, each member of her family wonders if she will choose their career path--her grandfather the news photographer, her father the mountain climber or her mother the basketball player--until she reveals a dream that is all her own.
37) Silver and gold
Author
Series
Astronaut girl volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Val is excited to go on one more adventure with her friend Wallace before school starts, but Wallace's friend Carlos keeps butting in.
38) The Plant Planet
Author
Series
Astronuts volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carbon dioxide is out of control on Earth, and the fate of humankind rests in the paws of four experimental, untested Animal Astronauts (AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug) who are seeking another habitable planet; first destination is the Plant Planet which at first looks perfect, except that the abundant plant life can think for itself--and it thinks that it really does not like the AstroNuts.
39) The water planet
Author
Series
Astronuts volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late.
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