Meet NASA inventor William "Red" Whittaker and his team's alien cave explorers / writer, Jeff De La Rosa.
Material type: TextSeries: Out of this worldPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780716661634
- 0716661632
- Alien cave explorers [Spine title]
- Alien cave explorers with NASA inventor Red Whittaker [Cover title]
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 629.435 R788 | Available | 33111008819654 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A volume explaining engineer Willian "Red" Wittaker's plan to develop robots designed to explore the unknown caves on the moon and Mars"--Provided by publisher.
"A volume explaining engineer William "Red" Whittaker's plan to develop robots designed to explore the unknown caves on the moon and Mars"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Caves -- Lava tubes -- Inventor feature: -- Spelunker (and what's in a name) -- Locating caves -- A campaign of exploration -- Stage one: orbital scouting -- Stage two: scouting by aerial and surface craft -- Inventor feature: Jules Verne -- Stage three: descending into the pit -- Big idea: the Tyrolean traverse -- Inventor feature: mother of invention -- Stage four: underground exploration -- Big idea: seeing in the dark -- Inventor feature: Farmer Red -- Why study caves? -- Big idea: future cave dwellers -- Whittaker and his team.