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De la Rosa, Jeff, author.
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Wiegmann, Bruce -- Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature.
Space vehicles -- Propulsion systems -- Juvenile literature.
Solar sails -- Juvenile literature.
Solar wind -- Juvenile literature.
Aerospace engineering -- Juvenile literature.
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Meet NASA inventor Bruce Wiegmann and his team's solar-wind-riding electric sail / [writer, Jeff De La Rosa].
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De la Rosa, Jeff, author.
Chicago, Illinois : World Book, [2017]
Subjects
Wiegmann, Bruce -- Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature.
Space vehicles -- Propulsion systems -- Juvenile literature.
Solar sails -- Juvenile literature.
Solar wind -- Juvenile literature.
Aerospace engineering -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780716661627 (library binding) :
0716661624 (library binding)
Series:
Out of this world (World Book)
Description:
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Contents:
The solar wind -- The edge of the solar system -- Changes in the heliosphere -- Reaching the heliopause -- The need for speed -- Inventor feature: building a dream -- Electric repulsion -- Big idea: an invisible sail -- Inventor feature: basic research -- Protons and electrons -- Longer wires -- Big idea: spinning the spacecraft -- Inventor feature: inspired by industry -- Electric sail vs. solar sail -- Inventor feature: other interests -- Big idea: keep it simple! -- Outside the ecliptic -- Pushing back the boundaries -- Bruce Wiegmann and his team.
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"A volume explaining engineer Bruce Wiegmann's plan to create a space craft that will harness the power of solar wind to propel itself towards the edge of the solar system"--Provided by publisher.
Audience:
Ages 5-11.
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