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Skurzynski, Gloria

This Is Rocket Science: True Stories of the Risk-Taking Scientists Who Figure Out Ways to Explore Beyond Earth

80 pp. | National | April, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4263-0597-9 $18.95 | Library ISBN 978-1-4263-0598-6 $28.90
(3) 4-6 Skurzynski outlines the history of rocketry, covering its origins in Chinese uses of gunpowder, the advances of the "Fathers of Modern Rocketry," the mid-twentieth-century war research of German, Soviet, and American scientists, and current and future private and government-funded rocket research. Crisp color and black-and-white illustrations include both historical and contemporary space shuttle/rocket images and future space vehicles. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

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