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Author Embury, Barbara.

Title The dream is alive / written by Barbara Embury ; in consultation with Thomas D. Crouch.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, [1990]
©1990

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 629.45 Embury Dre 1990        Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer
Edition First edition.
Description 64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 34 cm.
age Children
Series IMAX/Smithsonian wide world series
IMAX/Smithsonian wide world series.
Note "A Somerville House book."
Summary Describes the experiences of those who ride in the NASA space shuttle, including the sensation of weightlessness, the ways they eat and bathe, and the special exercises performed in space.
Contents Riding a column of fire. Sally Ride -- Launching the shuttle -- The tragedy of Challenger -- Blast off! -- Robert Crippen -- How do you become an astronaut? -- The wonders of weightlessness -- Putting it all together. The incredible tiles -- Bumbling bees and spiders in a spin -- From space to you -- Hello, LDEF -- The shuttle's extra hand -- Filming in space -- A day in space. How to go to the bathroom in space -- Marc Garneau -- Dangerous space debris -- Space food -- Dressing for space -- Stepping out -- Coming home. Kathryn Sullivan -- Great achievements in spaceflight -- How the orbiters got their names.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer
Subject Space shuttles -- Juvenile literature.
Space shuttles.
Space flight -- Juvenile literature.
Space flight.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Added Author Crouch, Tom D.
ISBN 1560980192
0060218134
9780060218133
0060218142 (library binding)
9780060218140 (library binding)
9781560980193