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  • De la Rosa, Jeff, author.
     
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  • Wiegmann, Bruce -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Space vehicles -- Propulsion systems -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Solar sails -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Solar wind -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • 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].
    by De la Rosa, Jeff, author.
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    Chicago, Illinois : World Book, [2017]
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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.
  • 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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    Summary: 
    "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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    Hilo Public LibraryJ -- Juvenile Nonfiction629.475 De La RosaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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