Sally
Ride : Shooting for the Stars (Great Lives Series)
by Jane Hurwitz, Sue Hurwitz (Contributor)
Profiles the life of America's first woman astronaut to fly in space.
Jain Sally's astronaut training as she learns to fly jets, practices sea
rescue missions, and floats weightlessly in a special "zero gravity" aircraft.
Ingram
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 128 pages (September 1989)
Columbine Trade; ISBN: 044990394X
Managing
Martians
by Donna Shirley et al.
Donna Shirley dreamed of going to Mars since she was a starstruck kid
in Oklahoma, reading science fiction and staring up at the big Western
sky. Managing Martians chronicles her life from flight-obsessed childhood
to the realization of her dream as manager of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's
Mars Exploration Program--the people who sent Pathfinder and the rover
Sojourner to the red planet in 1997.
On
the Shuttle : Eight Days in Space
by Barbara Bondar, Roberta Bondar (Contributor)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 64 pages
Owl Communications; ISBN: 1895688108
Mae C. Jemison : 1st Black Female Astronaut
by Ebraska D. Ceasor
Paperback (April 1992)
New Day Pr; ISBN: 0913678228
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Shannon
Lucid : Space Ambassador
by Carmen Bredeson
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Library Binding - 48 pages
Millbrook Pr; ISBN: 0761304061
Touching
the Earth
by Roberta Bondar
Paperback - 144 pages
Key Porter Books; ISBN: 1550136577
Christa
McAuliffe : A Space Biography
by Laura S. Jeffrey
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Library Binding - 48 pages
Enslow Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 0894909762
Ellen
Ochoa : The First Hispanic Woman Astronaut
by Maritza Romero
Library Binding - 24 pages
Powerkids Pr; ISBN: 0823950875
