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On January 28, 1986, NASA launched the space shuttle Challenger. The shuttle had flown several times before. But this time, just over a minute into the flight, the shuttle exploded, killing its crew of seven. This book examines the scope of the disaster, its causes, and how people can keep a similar disaster from happening again.
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"This book relays the factual details of the Columbia space shuttle explosion. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a WRDY news reporter, potential future astronaut, and a family. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event"--Provided by publisher.
29) Ruthless sky
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"In the year 1989, Dr. Cat Riley, a NASA astronaut who overcame all challenges to live her dream, sees her first mission to space become a fight for her life. As the space shuttle Intrepid launches, an explosion propels Cat and her fellow astronauts into a battle against the merciless void of space. NASA's efforts to save their crippled orbiter don't go as planned, and Cat and her crewmate Hayes find themselves isolated and facing imminent death....
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"Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest." --
"From Director Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy) comes the story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history. Acadamy Award winner Matthew McConaughey stars as ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper, who must leave his family and a foundering...
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On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was completing what appeared to be a "routine" spaceflight. Columbia was NASA's oldest shuttle - the very first launched into space (in 1981). Now at the end of its 28th mission - a 16-day flight dedicated to science - it was descending over Texas and just minutes from its scheduled touch-down in Florida. Then something went very wrong. Within a few minutes, media around the globe were reporting the...
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I am legend: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
Midnight special: A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.
The book of Eli: Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must...
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