| Portion of title |
Meet NASA inventor William "Red" Whittaker and his team's alien cave explorers |
| Cover title |
Alien cave explorers with NASA inventor Red Whittaker |
| Series |
Out of this world
Out of this world (World Book) UNAUTHORIZED
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| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Audience |
1010 Lexile |
| Study program note |
Accelerated Reader AR |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2017024495 |
| ISBN | 9780716661634 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0716661632 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
