Zoom! Children’s Book Rockets to International Space Station

Authors

  • Deborah Lee Rose

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.21.3.16

Abstract

Just like people on Earth, astronauts in orbit love to read. Now Astronauts Zoom! is part of that reading. The book was launched to the International Space Station (ISS), with four astronauts on the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, for Story Time From Space.

After the spacecraft’s first launch attempt was scrubbed (with countdown nail-bitingly stopped at two minutes before liftoff), the book rocketed into space on March 2, 2023, on Read Across America Day. In about 120 days in space, the book has orbited more than 57 million miles on the ISS.

Author Biography

Deborah Lee Rose

Deborah Lee Rose is the internationally published author of nineteen children’s books; she has won five national STEM children’s book awards, including the DeBary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books for Astronauts Zoom!, Scientists Get Dressed, and Swoop and Soar. Her newest picture book about Emperor penguins and climate change, Penguins Ready to Go, Go, Go!,will be published in spring 2024. Find free educational guides with activities at www.deborahleerose.com. The Astronauts Zoom! video read-aloud from Story Time From Space is free online at https://storytimefromspace.com/astronauts-zoom/.

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Published

2023-09-06

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2023): Fall

Section

Features

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