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Books
Gibson, Karen Bush.
Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific
Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures.
Chicago Review Press, 2013.
Halls, Kelly Milner.
Astronaut: 21st Century Skills Library.
Cherry Lake
Publishing, 2013.
Mara, Wil.
Space Exploration: Science, Technology, Engineering.
Children’s Press, 2014.
Platt, Richard.
Galactic Mission: DK Adventures.
DK Publishing, 2014.
A novel based in fact about a long-distance space mission.
Web Sites
NASA (NASA.com)
This massive Web site takes you everywhere astronauts have gone.
Learn about space flight, science experiments, and astronauts.
Smithsonian (airandspace.si.edu)
The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum site is packed with histori-
cal photos and articles about space flight.
European Space Agency (esa.int)
Astronaut/scientists from a dozen European countries have been to
the ISS. Read more about them here.
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