When Kids Take Over NASA

Just announced as a finalist in "ForeWord Reviews'" 2011 Book of the Year Awards. WHEN KIDS TAKE OVER NASA follows five bright students on what begins as a school assignment and turns into an all-out mission to get America back into space! Grant, Christina, Kendall, Tica, and Jeremy visit the Johnson Space Center only to find it "mothballed and cocooned." When an ex-employee gives them a key, they enter the building and take control of the center! When some unexpected helpers show up, the kids discover a new kind of physics, NASA secrets, the possibility of a real rocket launch on their watch, and that one of them has gone missing in a true "Houston, we have a problem!" scenario. Are they in over their heads? Absolutely. Sound out-of-this-world? Just wait to read about what happens after the kids take charge! Written by award-winning author Carole Marsh, WHEN KIDS TAKE OVER NASA has been called "lively, well-written and educational" by Forrest Schultz of Southside Book Reviews, and Marsh has been praised for integrating real science and the history of the space program into a breathtaking and imaginative story. Look What's Inside This Mystery - people, places, history and more! People: Lyndon Johnson John F. Kennedy Ronald ReaganPlace: Houston, TX (Johnson Space Center) Educational Items: Space physics: propulsion, velocity, momentum, combustion Newton's Third Law "The Astronaut Says" feature - history of space exploration Johnson Space Center Space flight training: Neutral Buoyancy Lab, Flight Simulation Lab Dark matter Dark energy Mars Vocabulary: apogee, perigee cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more!