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Missiles and spy satellites / by John Hamilton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, John, 1959-
- Series:
- Hamilton, John, 1959- Space race.
- The Space Race
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space surveillance--Juvenile literature.
- Space surveillance.
- Guided missiles--Juvenile literature.
- Guided missiles.
- Space race--Juvenile literature.
- Space race.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Abdo & Daughters, [2019]
- Summary:
- This title explores the military origins of the Space Race, including the geopolitics of the Cold War, the race to build intercontinental ballistic missiles, and sophisticated reconnaissance satellites. Will include information about Germany's development of the V-1 "buzz bomb" and V-2 missiles of World War II, and the United States enlistment of Wernher von Braun, the German scientist known as the father of rocketry. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
- Contents:
- The space race
- Early rockets
- How rockets work
- Rocket pioneers
- The V-2 missle
- Wernher von Braun
- Sergei Korolev
- The Cold War
- The ICBM
- Sputnik
- America's turn
- High-flying spies
- Timeline
- Glossary
- Online resources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781532171550
- 1532171552
- 9781532171482
- 153217148X
- OCLC:
- 1099977397
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