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"The discovery in the last few decades of thousands of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars has made the age-old dream of interstellar travel a newly urgent scientific question. Initiatives like NASA's 100-Year Starship and the billionaire-funded Breakthrough Starshot are now investigating and developing new technologies that could one day enable humans to explore, perhaps even colonize, distant solar systems. This short, accessible book brings readers...
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2023.
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"Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. "A perfect scare to swallow up in one sitting." -Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears'...
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Produced by Cinnabar Media Ventures
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[2016]
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English
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Including a diagram, fun facts, and colorful photographs, this book describes space vehicles, how they are launched, the three stages of the rocket, the capsule's splitting from the rocket, the capsule in orbit, and the return to Earth's atmosphere. Each audio-enabled VOX Book has an audio reader with complete narration permanently attached inside the front cover. It's ready for listening directly from the book--no CD, no computer, no tablet.
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Starlight's Shadow volume 3
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English
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As a recovery specialist, Lexi Bowen's jobs typically require more trickery and thievery than honest work. Her former captain might not approve of her flexible morals, but stealing artifacts for rich assholes pays the bills, and Lexi's had enough of war and death. The FHP left her to die once; she doesn't plan to give them a chance to finish the job. Unfortunately, her latest contract takes her to Valovia itself--and right back into the orbit of...
5) Space squad
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Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Finn loves trucks! In this book, Finn features some of his favorite space machines, like a spaceplane and a satellite, and with the help of the space squad explains the exciting job each one has when it comes to exploring space. Just lift the page to find out what each of Finn's fun trucks can do!"--Back cover
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Charlesbridge
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"From Neil Armstrong's first small step to Gene Cernan's last footprint, award-winning author Suzanne Slade captures the experiences of the twelve astronauts who walked on the moon. The book reveals how the Apollo moon missions (1969-1972) built upon one another and unveiled important new discoveries about our nearest neighbor in space."--
8) The deep sky
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2023.
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English
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"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of...
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Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a science-fiction classic that has changed the way we look at the stars—and ourselves. On the moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent deep into our solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go very wrong. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn at...
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Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Details Pidge's adventures as a paladin of Voltron, detailing how she hid her identity to become a student at the Galaxy Garrison and met the other paladins on their quest to defeat the Galra.
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Secret explorers volume 9
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A space expert and a geology expert take readers on an out-of-this-world adventure to the moon, where they must navigate the dangerous terrain to clear up space debris before it can interfere with a lunar mission.
19) Ancestral night
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White space volume 1
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"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence--with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big--just once--to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about...
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