Higginbotham, Adam
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 HIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 HIGKelly, Mark E.
Summary: El astronauta Mark Kelly voló con "ratonautas" en su primer vuelo espacial a bordo del transbordador Endeavour en 2001. Ratonauta cuenta la historia de un ratoncito que lo que más quiere es viajar al espacio exterior. El ratoncito trabaja tan duro como los ratones más grandes para mostrar que está listo para la misión...¡y es escogido para el vuelo! Mientras están en el espacio, los astronautas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH KELDickmann, Nancy
Summary: Readers will get a peek into what it's like to visit the moon, climb aboard the International Space Station, and explore many other parts of space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books, an imprint of Rosen Publishing 2019
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 523.2 DICSummary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI GRARooney, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books, an imprint of Rosen Publishing 2022
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1 available in Lobby Display, Call number: J 629.47 ROOBranley, Franklyn Mansfield
Summary: Examines life aboard a space shuttle, describing how astronauts deal with weightlessness, how they eat and exercise, some of the work they do, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.477 BRAKelly, Mark E.
Summary: A small, but plucky, mouse named Mike is sure that he can help the Space Shuttle astronauts, and ends up saving the whole mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KELRide, Sally.
Summary: Describes in text and photographs what it is like to be an astronaut on the space shuttle. Includes a glossary of terms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beech Tree 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 RIDSummary: NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft, accomplishing many firsts and inspiring generations across its 30-year lifespan as America's iconic spaceship. In Space Shuttle Stories, shuttle astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts for personal vignettes from each mission, complemented by their written accounts for all 135 space shuttle missions, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.44 SPACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.44 SPASummary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI GRADay, Kate Hope
Summary: "June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begin a grueling astronaut training program. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station, but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle's fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAYSummary: Watch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut and acting space commander Matt Kowalski. Then disaster strikes the shuttle, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely out of touch with Earth. With little oxygen and energy left, how will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRAEllis, Warren.
Summary: Three specialists investigate when a space shuttle returns to Earth after a disappearance of ten years with its pilot mentally deranged, the rest of its crew missing, and with Martian sand in its landing gear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ELLModesitt, L. E.
Summary: In a period five thousand years into the future in which the human race maintains an uneasy peace throughout thousands of planets, scientists discover a first sign of intelligent alien life when they locate a mobile planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODSummary: This book looks at the Space Shuttle experience, as told by the astronauts themselves. The editors of Air & Space/Smithsonian Magazine wrote all of the people who have flown on the Space Shuttle since 1981 with a simple request: Tell us your best stories. The astronauts' candid responses reveal the drama of the Shuttle experience, from launch to landing. The book includes more than 300 pictures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.441 SPASummary: A profile in courage; the stories of brave men and women who proudly served their country on a bold new journey of space discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Home Entertainment 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brompton 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.4 DEWFitzgerald, Ian
Summary: "Transportation! Incredible computer-generated illustrations reveal transportation as you've never seen it before. Discover how goods and people travel above, across, and even under the ground, while rockets journey deep into space. Encounter the biggest and smallest vehicles of the land, sea, and sky--from huge oceangoing aircraft carriers to agile drones. Find out what is inside a car engine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 629.04 FITDean, Margaret Lazarus
Summary: In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 DEANaujokaitis, Pranas T.
Summary: "In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.124 NAULeinbach, Michael D.
Summary: On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed rural east...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space LeinbachSummary: "[A] group of bright but incorrigible high school students spend...their summer at the NASA SpaceCamp. But when a frightening miscommunication occurs during a space shuttle training mission, the teens and their astronaut instructor are accidentally launched into orbit. Can this young team of unlikely heroes work together to survive the outer-space adventure of a lifetime?" --container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family SpaceMcNeese, Tim.
Summary: Recounts events surrounding the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, the first shuttle to carry a civilian passenger, and discusses the impact of this disaster on the United States space program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2003