Scott Kelly
Author
Language
English
Description
What I've Learned from You is the story of the lessons of life taught to a doctor by his patients. It takes us on a journey from an inner-city trauma center to the bedside of a dying cancer patient. It explores human relationships and gives an intimate view into the window of the human condition. On the road to becoming a physician, Dr. Kelly longed to find serenity in a world of conflicting ideas and aspirations. The demands of his medical training...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both life-threatening and mundane: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth; the catastrophic risks of colliding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Scott wasn't sure what he wanted to be when he grew up. He struggled in school and often got in trouble with his twin brother, Mark. Then one day Scott discovered a book about test pilots and astronauts that set him on a new path. His new focus led him to fly higher and higher, becoming first a pilot and then an astronaut, along with his brother--the first twin astronauts in history. But his greatest accomplishment of all was commanding the International...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A year in space: Adapted from Time's original digital video series, it takes viewers behind the scenes of astronaut Scott Kelly's twelve-month stay on the International Space Station, where he tests human limits for space travel and lays the groundwork for a manned mission to Mars. The one-hour documentary tracks Scott Kelly's mission from training and launch, through his year aboard the International Space Station, right up through his descent and...
11) Improvements in block-Krylov Ritz vectors and the boundary flexibility method of component synthesis
Author
Series
NASA technical memorandum volume 107477
Publisher
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center
Pub. Date
May, 1997.
Language
English