Leland Melvin

"When Tia Valor takes a test on a whim for an exclusive NASA program for middle schoolers, she never thought she'd pass. After all, she never really fit in at school. In fact, she's been skipping school most days to work at her brother's auto shop instead. But Leland Melvin, a famed astronaut, sees potential in Tia, and before she knows it, she's part of a team of other talented kids training to launch to an advanced space station orbiting the earth....

"In Chasing Space, Leland Melvin tackles stupendous obstacles with dogged determination, showing you what is indeed possible in life—if you belive." —Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and Welcome to the Universe.

Winner of the 2019 Grand Canyon Reader Award for Tween Non-Fiction

Meet Leland Melvin—football star, NASA astronaut, and professional

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Guy's battle of wits involves a helium-fueled race where it pays to be the slowest across the finish line, and a super-sized packing challenge.

Guy deploys a secret weapon in his bid to stump the others in a paper airplane engineering challenge.

To stump the guys, Terry super-sizes a classic logic puzzle and miniaturizes an ancient weapon to catapult himself to a win.