
Let’s find out a little bit about him (reads from p. (points to cover picture) His name is Meteor. That’s right, astro means ‘star’ and nautes means ‘sailor.’ So a ‘mousetronaut’ would be a ‘mouse sailor.’ That’s funny! Like the astronauts, though, the mousetronaut in this book isn’t traveling in a boat he’s traveling in a spaceship! Look at that little guy in his special mouse space suit. Who remembers what these mean? (children respond). (1) Remember when we read that book called Astronauts, and we learned what the word “astronaut” meant? It’s made up of two Greek words, astro and nautes.

Let’s all say that word, ‘mousetronaut.’ (children repeat word). “This book is called Mousetronaut Goes to Mars. Note: The numbers in boldface in the passage below identify the correspondingly-numbered opening moves listed at the end of the passage.

During and after Scott's year-long mission, the brothers were studied to find differences between living on Earth and in space He returned to Earth on Maafter 340 days in space. In 2015, Scott Kelly began a mission spending a year in space on the International Space Station. The Kelly brothers are the only siblings to have both traveled in space. Kelly's identical twin brother, Scott Kelly, is also an astronaut. His wife's shooting led to a broad national conversation ranging from the duties of a husband to what is acceptable civil discourse. After the shooting, in which six people were killed, both Kelly and Giffords were thrust into the media spotlight.

His wife was the target of an attempted assassination in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011. STS-134 was his final mission and the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour.

He was selected to become a NASA Space Shuttle pilot in 1996 and flew his first mission in 2001 as pilot of STS-108. He is the husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, an author, political activist, and aerospace executive and consultant.Ī naval aviator, Kelly flew combat missions during the Gulf War. Mark Edward Kelly is a retired American astronaut, engineer and U.S.
