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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"From Neil Armstrong's first small step to Gene Cernan's last footprint, award-winning author Suzanne Slade captures the experiences of the twelve astronauts who walked on the moon. The book reveals how the Apollo moon missions (1969-1972) built upon one another and unveiled important new discoveries about our nearest neighbor in space."--
Author
Series
Ready-to-read volume Level 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
After Sean tells Jet, Sydney and Mindy about the Apollo 11 misison, the kids decide to do a real-life reenactment of the first moon landing.
7) Spacecraft
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Spacecraft have a very important job--transporting people between Earth and space. Readers explore the history of this mode of transportation, including the spacecraft that brought people to the moon and the Soyuz spacecraft that carry astronauts today. This information is presented to readers through engaging main text and fun fact boxes, which provide additional details about this topic. Readers also learn about the future of space exploration,...
10) How to make a spaceship: a band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private space flight
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required...
11) NASA
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Presents rereleases of NASA films documenting the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and a look at the first 25 years of NASA, including these history making events: orbiting the Earth for the first time on Friendship 7, the first docking in space by the Gemini VII crew, the first man to set foot on the moon with Apollo 11, the ill-fated voyage of Apollo 13, the unbelievable explosion of space shuttle Apollo 11, the ill-fated voyage of Apollo 13, the...
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