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"With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe-ungoverned and infinite-was open for business. Welcome to the wild west of aerospace...
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Kate the chemist volume 4
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Fifth-grader Kate tries to do it all when she promises a cake for her brother's birthday party and stages a rocket launch for her chemistry club.
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Martin Bridge volume 1
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Meet Martin Bridge--a most special and ordinary boy whose well-meant plans sometimes go awry. In three more stories, Martin encounters two bus drivers with very different ways of relating, makes a tough decision about a friend's pet and takes on an extremely competitive model rocket project that almost costs him a friendship. The daily rhythms, struggles and triumphs of childhood-at home, at school and with friends-are evoked with warmth, understanding,...
10) The rocket
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A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
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Pine and Boof books volume 1
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When an egg from outer space falls on Boof's head, he and his best friend Pine must travel to outer space to return the space egg to its space nest.
13) Runaway rocket!
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"When a rocket launch goes wrong in Adventure Bay, it's up to Nickelodeon's newest heroes, the Cat Pack, to help the PAW Patrol save the day. Will Wild, Leo, Shade, Rory, and the heroic pups make a purrfect team?"--
14) Racing the moon
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In 1947, eleven-year-old Alex and her impulsive, older brother Chuck befriend an army scientist who shares their interest in rockets and outer space travel.
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"This stellar debut about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships, and searching for answers to big questions will resonate with fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Rebecca Stead. The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like...
16) Liftoff!
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A simple overview of some of the preparations leading up to the launch of a space shuttle.
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Academy Award® winner Billy Bob Thornton stars as a man who refuses to give up on his dreams in this inspirational family drama filled with heart, humor and a healthy dose of social satire. As a farmer, family man and former astronaut-in-training, Charles Farmer -- played by Thornton (Mr. Woodcock)-- chases his lifelong dream to reach the stars by building his very own spacecraft in his barn! With the support of his family and friends -- played by...
19) Rockets
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"An examination of the origins, history, development, and impact of rockets and rocketry science"--Provided by publisher.
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Waffles and Pancake volume 3
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"When the CatStronauts shuttle launch is delayed, Waffles and Pancake take matters into their own hands and build a spaceship"--
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