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Spaceman : the true story of a young boy's journey to becoming an astronaut

2020

Title:	Spaceman : the true story of a young boy's journey to becoming an astronaut / Mike Massimino.
Format:	Book
Author:	Massimino, Mike, 1962- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Delacorte Press, [2020] ©2020
Copyright:	©2020
Description:	xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Summary:	The story of Mike Massimino's life growing up in a working-class family and his determination to get the education and experience that would lead to his challenging but successful rise to become a NASA astronaut.
Audience Note:	Ages: 9 to 12.
Subjects:	Massimino, Mike, 1962- -- Juvenile literature. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature. Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile literature. Astronauts -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre:	Autobiographies. Biographies.

Notes:	"Adapted for young readers" -- Title page. "This work is based on Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, published in hardcover by Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2016, and in paperback by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, in 2017" -- title page verso.
Contents:	Prologue: A science fiction monster -- A perfect good -- Most all-around -- Who you gonna get? -- The smart-kid olympics -- Force feedback -- Human factors -- Disqualified -- Yes or no -- There's Mach I -- Spacewalker -- Shackleton mode -- Seeing beyond the stars -- Ready to go -- Weightless -- Earth is a planet -- Maybe this is heaven -- February 1, 2003 -- Why we go -- From the ashes -- One last job -- Line 28 -- Grounded -- Epilogue: Around the next corner.

LCCN:	2019015873
ISBN:	9780593120866 (trade hardcover) 0593120868 (trade hardcover) 9780593120873 (library binding) 0593120876 (library binding)
Other Number:	1099539651
Control Number:	3770612

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