Age
8-13
Grade
3-4
Ruth Owen
Astronaut: Life As a Scientist and Engineer in Space
Library Binding
(Bearport Pub Co Inc Oct. 7, 2016)
Imagine working in a laboratory thats 200 miles above Earth. You perform experiments on microbes, radiation, new types of metals, and even your own body. You travel to work on a spacecraft, work alongside robots, and drink your own recycled urine! Its all in a days work for an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. Readers will discover how work in science and engineering is carried out every day by astronauts on the ISS. Told in a lively narrative style, this book includes firsthand accounts of astronauts lives, entertaining anecdotes, cool facts, and fascinating behind-the-scenes images. Readers will also get the chance to try their hand at space science projects.
- Series
- Get to Work With Science and Technology
- ISBN
- 1910549878 / 9781910549872
- Pages
- 32
- Weight
- 11.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 0.5
in.