Jordan, Elisa,

Designing a Shuttle / Elisa Jordan, M.A. ; Editor : Seth Rogers - 32 pages : colour illustrations, colour photographs ; 23 cm - Smithsonian STEAM Readers ; Creative Solutions . - Smithsonian STEAM readers ; Creative solutions .

Includes index.
Includes questions read and respond

Introducing the space shuttle! -- Designing the space shuttle -- Shuttle missions -- Legacy of the space shuttle -- STEAM challenge -- Glossary -- Index -- Career Advice.

"How do you build a reusable spacecraft that collects information and fixes telescopes in space? That's what scientists and engineers had to figure out. When they started work on the Space Shuttle Program, they had to create a rocket-airplane combination. What they came up with changed the world!"--

RM970.53 9781493867011 RM64.70


Space shuttles--Juvenile literature
Space vehicles--Juvenile literature--Design and construction
Aerospace engineering--Juvenile literature


Juvenile literature
Juvenile works

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