Adventure - Nonfiction

 

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1. The mission: or, how a disciple of Carl Sagan, an ex-motocross racer, a Texas Tea Party congressman, the world's worst typewriter saleswoman, California mountain people, and an anonymous...

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Brown, David W.
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A narrative chronicle of NASA's deep-space mission to Jupiter's ocean moon, Europa, discusses the remarkable work of scientists who overcame formidable hurdles in their effort to determine if organic life exists elsewhere in the solar system.

2. One giant leap: the impossible mission that flew us to the moon

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Author:
Fishman, Charles, 1961-
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"The ... story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon."--

3. To infinity & beyond: a journey of cosmic discovery

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Tyson, Neil deGrasse
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"This illustrated narrative explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space"--