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Astronauts United States Biography Astronauts United States Biography Juvenile literature Ride, Sally Ride, Sally Juvenile literature Space race United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Biography United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Biography Juvenile literature Women astronauts United States Biography Juvenile literature Women Biography Women physicists United States Biography Juvenile literatureDolan, Hannah
Summary: Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Dolan 2018Shetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 920 LEERiddolls, Tom.
Summary: Sally Ride soared into outer space on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983, the youngest astronaut and the first U.S. woman in space. Just 32 years old that year, this California girl was already an accomplished astrophysicist when NASA chose her from over 8,000 applicants to join its team of astronauts. Since then, Sally Ride has spent over 343 hours in space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIDStine, Megan.
Summary: Looks at the life and career of the physicist and NASA astronaut who became the first American woman in space in 1983.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET RIDEHaise, Fred
Summary: "The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022