Bibliograph

Meet NASA inventor William "Red" Whittaker and his team's alien cave explorers, writer, Jeff De La Rosa

Type

Label

Meet NASA inventor William "Red" Whittaker and his team's alien cave explorers, writer, Jeff De La Rosa

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 5-11

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Meet NASA inventor William "Red" Whittaker and his team's alien cave explorers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

writer, Jeff De La Rosa

Series statement

Out of this world

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 6.6, 1, 192887.

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Alien cave explorersAlien cave explorers with NASA inventor Red Whittaker

Classification