This is Rocket Science: True Stories of the Risk-taking Scientists who Figure Out Ways to Explore Beyond Earth

This is Rocket Science: True Stories of the Risk-taking Scientists who Figure Out Ways to Explore Beyond Earth
ISBN-10
1426305982
ISBN-13
9781426305986
Category
Aerospace engineers
Pages
84
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
National Geographic Books
Author
Gloria Skurzynski

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