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Milestones of flight : from hot-air balloons to SpaceShipOne
- Title
- Milestones of flight : from hot-air balloons to SpaceShipOne / by Tim Grove.
- Author
- Grove, Tim, 1967-
- Publication
- New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- National Air and Space Museum.
- Description
- 103 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 26 cm
- Summary
- "This book is being published in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary in July 2016. There will be a new Smithsonian exhibition, to be called "Milestones of Flight." This book is NOT a catalog of the exhibition; rather, it is a history of flight told through approximately twenty-five historical milestones"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Chronologies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- 10-14.
- Contents
- Ballooning -- Wright Flyer -- Curtiss JN-4, the "Jenny" -- Douglas World Cruiser -- Goddard rocket -- Spirit of St. Louis -- Full scale wind tunnel -- Douglas DC-3 -- UAVs -- Bell XP-59A Aeracomet -- Whittle and Jumo 004B engines -- Bell X-1, Glamorous Glennis -- Boeing 367-80, "Dash 80" -- Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1 -- North American X-15 -- Discoverer/Corona -- Telstar -- Mercury Friendship 7 -- Mariner 2 -- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird -- Gemini IV -- Imagination and the Star Trek Starship Enterprise -- Lunar Module -- Touchable moon rock -- Pioneer 10/11 -- Viking Lander -- Space Shuttle Discovery -- Hubble Space Telescope -- SpaceShipOne -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFF 17-903
- ISBN
- 9781419720031
- 1419720031
- LCCN
- 2015033040
- OCLC
- 932003489
- Author
- Grove, Tim, 1967- author.
- Title
- Milestones of flight : from hot-air balloons to SpaceShipOne / by Tim Grove.
- Publisher
- New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
- 10-14.
- Added Author
- National Air and Space Museum.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 17-903