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• Aerospace engineers
• Biography
• Biography & Autobiography - General
• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Science
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• Children: Grades 4-6
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• Rocketry
• Rocketry - History
• Rockets (Aeronautics) - History
• Space (Children's/YA)
• Technology - Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
• Technology - History
• Technology - How Things Work/Are Made

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• This Is Rocket Science: True Stories of the Risk-taking Scientists who Figure Out Ways to Explore Beyond Earth
  National Geographic Children's Books, Hardcover, 2010
• This Is Rocket Science: True Stories of the Risk-taking Scientists who Figure Out Ways to Explore Beyond Earth
  National Geographic Children's Books, Library Binding, 2010

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