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"Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company....
2) Rescue mode
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Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 25 cm
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When the first human mission to Mars is devastated by a meteoroid strike, the spacecraft's survivors struggle against impossible odds while decision-makers on Earth confront bureaucratic political forces.
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"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Jeremy, the son of another astronaut.
6) Life on Mars
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
7) Glorious
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Series
Bowl of heaven volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Traces the efforts of an astronaut team to explore and document an alien labyrinth constructed from incomprehensible technology.
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
542 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm.
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When political divides, riots and sabotage compromise the Earth's response to the Meteor strike, Elma departs for a fledgling Mars colony before the challenges of interplanetary pioneer life are further complicated by her husband's presidential campaign.
10) Snakes in space
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"Snakes in space? Yes, indeed. The colorful crew explores stars and planets on a fabuloussss adventure with accessible, fun, sibilant text. Brimming with rocket ships and planets, this outer space adventure is also a fun read aloud. And at the end, there's a surprise sure to delight readers, as one of the snakes makes a new friend!"--Dust jacket.
11) Astronaut Annie
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Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Description
When Annie has a career day at her school, each member of her family wonders if she will choose their career path--her grandfather the news photographer, her father the mountain climber or her mother the basketball player--until she reveals a dream that is all her own.
12) Life on Mars
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
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231 pages ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers' quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
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Presents a typical day in the life of Bob, the man on the moon, who rockets to work each morning, cleans up after the astronauts, and performs other duties before returning home for a bath and bed.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Inspired by the story of Mae Johnson, the first African American woman in space. When little Mae was a child, she dreamed of dancing in space. She imagined herself surrounded by billions of stars, floating, gliding, and discovering.
15) Dark biology
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Renowned vaccinologist "Hildi" Hildebrandt has set her sights on beating her brother to a Nobel Prize, and the opportunity to conduct experiments on the International Space Station might just provide the means to obtain that goal. Chet Hildebrandt should have had that opportunity. But now he'll teach a lesson to them all: his hot-shot astronaut sister, his philandering hypocritical father, and the CDC for not properly appreciating his work. One vial...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Houston and his younger brother Robbie dream of becoming astronauts, but when Houston is accepted to the Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program he realizes that Robbie's dream may not be achievable due to his cerebral palsy, so he makes a new plan that shoots for the stars.
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