Download or read book Rocket Girls The Last Planet written by Housuke Nojiri and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Rocket Girls accidentally splash down in the pond of Yukari Morita's old school, it looks as though their experiment is ruined. Luckily, the geeky Akane is there to save the day. Fitting the profile--she's intelligent, enthusiastic, and petite--Akane is soon recruited by the Solomon Space Association. Yukari and Akane are then given the biggest Rocket Girl mission yet: to do what NASA astronauts cannot and save a probe headed to the minor planet Pluto and the very edge of the solar system. -- VIZ Media
Download or read book Rise of the Rocket Girls written by Nathalia Holt and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible. For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women -- known as "human computers" -- who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading. "If Hidden Figures has you itching to learn more about the women who worked in the space program, pick up Nathalia Holt's lively, immensely readable history, Rise of the Rocket Girls." -- Entertainment Weekly
Download or read book Summary and Analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars written by Worth Books and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Rise of the Rocket Girls tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Nathalia Holt’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter overviews Profiles of the main characters Detailed timeline of key events Important quotes Fascinating trivia Glossary of terms Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work About Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt: When the Jet Propulsion Laboratory first began researching rocket science and the possibilities within space exploration in the middle of the twentieth century, they hired a hyper intelligent group of female mathematicians to work with their staff of engineers. In Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, Nathalia Holt examines four decades of the JPL’s major accomplishments from interviews and research of these groundbreaking women who were recruited to be “human computers,” Including, from this team of unsung heroes, Barbara Paulson, Helen Ling, Sue Finley, and Sylvia Lundy. As the JPL’s projects evolved from developing missiles and satellites to executing moon landings and planetary exploration projects, the women’s roles grew too, becoming the team responsible for launching America into Space—and they did it all while balancing marriage and children, too. The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
Download or read book Rocket Girls Love Aliens written by Alina Jacobs and published by Adair Lakes. This book was released on with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a hot alien male living in my apartment…and he hates my guts. Vidanric reminds me daily that he despises Earth and wants to go home. He’s miserable, and so am I—even though I can’t help but admire the view when he’s standing shirtless in my kitchen making a smoothie. Loudly. At three in the morning. My horoscope didn’t prepare me for any of this. He chewed up and ate one of the inspirational notes I gave him. He cooks squirrels in my cast-iron skillet. He complains nonstop about my annoying Earth-girl habits. This alien’s not grumpy—he’s downright hostile. All he wants to do is go back to his home planet. But it’s impossible for him to go home. So I do the next best thing and try to make him fall in love with something on Earth. But Vidanric doesn’t like it when I surprise him on a run. He snarls when I bake him cookies. And he growls when I strip off my clothes and convince him to do an interplanetary nasty. It might not be enough to make him fall for Earth. But I might end up falling in love with him. And that will be a planet-sized disaster. This is a stand-alone, full-length, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy, complete with hot, snarly aliens, enough steam to blast off a planet, and a heroine who loves her horoscopes as much as she loves her math equations! Happily ever after guaranteed!
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Download or read book Rocket Girl 10 written by Brandon Montclare and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ONLY THE GOOD" The moment(s) everyone has been waiting for present day and 1986 are going to go BIG BANG in the nuclear conclusion to ROCKET GIRL's second arc.
Download or read book Invisible Planets written by Hannu Rajaniemi and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from the most exciting new name in SF Hannu Rajaniemi exploded onto the SF scene in 2010 with the publication of his first novel The Quantum Thief. Acclaimed by fellow authors such as Charles Stross, Adam Roberts and Alastair Reynolds and brilliantly reviewed everywhere from Interzone to the Times and the Guardian he swiftly established a reputation as an author who could combine extraordinary cutting edge science with beautiful prose and deliver it all with wit, warmth and a delight in the fun of storytelling. It is exactly these qualities that are showcased in this his first collection of short stories. Drawn from antholgies and magazines and online publication and brought together in book form for the first time in this collection here is a collection of seventeen short stories that range from the lyrical to the bizarre, from the elegaic to the impish. It is a collection that shows one of the great new imaginations in SF having immense fun.
Download or read book Rocket Girl written by Didi Dragon and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rocket Girl written by Didi Dragon and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocket Girl is for ambitious girls who shoot for the stars and land on the moon! Lucy wants to build a rocket ship out of a box to go to the moon. The neighborhood kids don't seem to think it could happen, it's just a box, after all. Lucy is even more determined-she cleverly builds her rocket, physically trains for space, counts down till launch . . . and nothing happens. But just when Lucy starts losing faith in her mission (it happens even to ambitious girls), something magical happens! Her rocket transforms and she finds herself in outer space on her way to the moon! Inspired by accounts of real astronauts & the pure joy that is being up in space, Rocket Girl is sure to be a STEM favorite for aspiring astronauts! Reading age: 3-7 years old
Download or read book Rocket Girls written by Melanie Fine and published by Rocket Girls Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since she started Taft Middle School two years ago, Sam Gold has been looking forward to eighth-grade science with Mrs. Cooper and the coveted position of lab tech. But she hadn't counted on her nemesis Kimberly Newhouse getting in the way, and the missing uranium that could put her whole school on lockdown if she doesn't find it. Sam Gold and the Case of the Missing Uranium is a fiction chapter book for upper elementary, middle school readers with high school level science explained in the simplest of terms. Included are 25+ Science Activities you can do at home!
Download or read book Rocket Girl 9 written by Brandon Montclare and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINAL COUNTDOWN! Here it comes: Rocket Girl is about to crack the case that sent her back in time to 1986!
Download or read book ROCKET GIRL the PLAY Size 6 X 9 written by George Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROCKET GIRL, stage play script. The year is 1957. The Cold War. An undeclared Space Race. The United States and the Soviet Union are locked in a battle to see which country will be the first to place a satellite into orbit. The stakes are high. International prestige, national pride, and the control of a host of emerging technologies are on the line. As America's Vanguard rocket proves itself a disastrous failure, and word leaks out that the Soviets are close to making their first orbital attempt, U.S. politicians have no choice but to abandon the Vanguard program and plead for help. Hat-in-hand, they recruit German expatriate Wernher von Braun.But when von Braun realizes that his rocket, the Redstone/Jupiter C, will not be powerful enough to reach orbit, he seeks out the help of a young woman in California who may hold the key to putting America back in the race.Born on a small farm in Ray, North Dakota, and recruited as a wartime chemist for the U.S. Government after only one year of college, Mary Sherman Morgan suddenly finds herself at the center of a political and technological maelstrom.Rocket Girl is the heretofore untold story of how a poor farm girl with only a high school diploma not only rose to become America's first female rocket scientist, but provided the crucial technology that launched America into the Age of Space.
Download or read book Rocket Girls Sam Gold and the Case of the Missing Uranium written by Melanie Fine and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since she started Taft Middle School two years ago, Sam Gold has been looking forward to eight-grade science with Mrs. Cooper and the coveted position of lab tech. But she hadn't counted on her nemesis Kimberly Newhouse getting in the way, and the missing uranium that could put her whole school on lockdown if she doesn't find it. Sam Gold and the Case of the Missing Uranium is a fiction chapter book for upper elementary, middle school readers with high school level science explained in the simplest of terms. Included are 25+ Science Activities you can do at home!
Download or read book Rocket Girl written by George D. Morgan and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIKE THE FEMALE SCIENTISTS PORTRAYED IN HIDDEN FIGURES, MARY SHERMAN MORGAN WAS ANOTHER UNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE—NOW HER STORY IS FINALLY TOLD. This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and the author's labyrinthine journey to uncover his mother's lost legacy--one buried deep under a lifetime of secrets political, technological, and personal. In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined. World War II and the Cold War space race with the Russians changed the fates of both von Braun and Mary Sherman Morgan. When von Braun and other top engineers could not find a solution to the repeated failures that plagued the nascent US rocket program, North American Aviation, where Sherman Morgan then worked, was given the challenge. Recognizing her talent for chemistry, company management turned the assignment over to young Mary. In the end, America succeeded in launching rockets into space, but only because of the joint efforts of the brilliant farm girl from North Dakota and the famous German scientist. While von Braun went on to become a high-profile figure in NASA's manned space flight, Mary Sherman Morgan and her contributions fell into obscurity--until now.
Download or read book The Girls from Planet 5 written by Richard Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hell World Heaven written by Nancy Xia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hell World Heaven is a collection of two hundred short stories that have truly taken place in the past. Through the author ́s words, readers will learn a unique perspective in life without the need to personally experience the most traumatic and debilitating events in this complex world. Moreover, this book provides a wide spectra in other areas of humanity, such as psychology, science, mystery, culture, sociology, etc. Click on the above link to read some sample stories. You will be compelled to click more.
Download or read book Rocket Girl The Play written by George D Morgan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocket Girl is the stage play version of the best-selling book. It tells the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's first female rocket scientist. The play is suitable for high school and college theatre programs, as well as community and professional theatre.
