Melvin Leland
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
1st edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"Leland Melvin is the only person to have caught a football in the NFL and flown into space with NASA. Now young readers can learn all about Melvin's amazing journey from the gridiron to the international space station. Three years after his release from the Detroit Lions, Melvin put his love of science and exploration to use at the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch for NASA. Nine years later, he was selected to be an astronaut. But Melvin's...