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41) Moon landing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Describes the first landing on the moon, including information about the space race and the Apollo 11 crew and spacecraft.
42) Apollo 11
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Surveys the various Apollo spaceflights that marked America's attempts to put a man on the moon, with an emphasis on the 1969 Apollo 11 project culminating in the first landing.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In July of 1969, three astronauts set off on an historic mission to land on the moon. Now, 50 years later, a new book celebrates the achievement of the Apollo missions, detailing an incredible period of science and engineering history. Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions tells the unique personal stories of over 60 engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program possible. The eight years from...
45) Moon landing
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
All young children love to look up at the moon. Now here's a board book that teaches them all about the first moon landing, with easy-to-understand details about the Apollo 11 astronauts, the NASA team, spacesuits, the rocket modules, and the world's celebration after the successful mission. Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("An astronaut's job is to travel...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses four key points in space exploration--the first sputnik satellites, the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Challenger disaster, and the Mars probes Spirit and Opportunity--and explains causes, immediate reactions, and ultimate results.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The story of Neil Armstrong.
NOVA presents an intimate portrait of Neil Armstrong through interviews with his family and friends, many of whom have never spoken publicly before. Seen through the eyes of those who were close to him, the film explores the man behind the myth, and also reveals his unsung achievements as a Navy combat veteran and pioneer of high speed flight.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When physics graduate Annie Fisk, a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, identifies an engineer's miscalculations, she is propelled into a new position where she's torn between her ambitions, her heart and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"Experience man's journey to the surface of the moon all over again, with this stellar collection of historical films and profiles of the men and women behind the scenes. It's one of the 20th century's greatest stories, and every moment--rom the early ambitious concepts and Kennedy's bold promise to the incredible 'giant leap for mankind'--s all here. NASA: The Complete Story also takes you through the space program's other great triumphs (and, yes,...
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Depending on whom you ask, the sixties was all about love, civil rights, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, decadence, repression, or something else completely. It was many things to many people, and was, unquestionably, a turning point in our national experience."--Container.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Depending on whom you ask, the sixties was all about love, civil rights, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, decadence, repression, or something else completely. It was many things to many people, and was, unquestionably, a turning point in our national experience."--Container.