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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force's first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot's wings at Vance Air Force Base and was...
43) Air & space
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Profiles women who have been active in air and space, including Christa McAuliffe, Amelia Earhart, and Sally Ride.
44) Mae Jemison
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut.
48) Grimspace
Author
Series
Sirantha Jax novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Jax has the ability to jumb ships through grimspace, but the process cuts into her life expectancy. When a ship she's navigating crash-lands, Jax is thought to be at fault and is imprisoned. A mysterious man breaks into her cell and offers freedom if Jax will help his small band of rogue jumpers.
51) Space heroes
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Illustrated with LEGO figures, this book profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
55) Mae Jemison
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An introduction to the life of Mae Jemison, engineer, physician, and astronaut.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut to go to space. She worked on a space shuttle for two different missions. But Sally Ride did more than just travel to space. She also was a teacher, an author, and a scientist. Learn more about her amazing life in this new level 3 biography!,"--page [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The youngest American to ever orbit the earth-cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux-shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, extraordinary things can happen. "It may be hard to believe while I'm gravity-bound on my bedroom floor, but if there's one thing I've learned in my time on Earth, it's that as long as you keep saying yes, everything is possible," says author Hayley Arceneaux. Arceneaux's power comes from her faith and her ability...