It takes the average reader 5 hours and 48 minutes to read Aiming for the Stars by Tom D. Crouch
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Aiming for the Stars explores the motivations, goals, trials, and triumphs of the people who pioneered space exploration from the sixteenth century to the modern era. Tom D. Crouch describes space travel's emergence from the pages of science fiction into the laboratories of twentieth-century rocketeers such as Wernher von Braun, who masterminded Nazi rocket development and later became a key figure in the U.S. space program, and Sergei Korolev, an engineer whose successful launches became the foundation of Soviet Cold War policy. The book also explains the goals and missions of the Mercury,...
Aiming for the Stars by Tom D. Crouch is 338 pages long, and a total of 87,204 words.
This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 56 minutes to read Aiming for the Stars aloud.
Aiming for the Stars is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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