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4) The moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Describes what people have believed about the moon and what has been learned over time and presents an overview of the Apollo space program.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 940L
Language
English
Description
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasnt just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one persons life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
The story of Neil A. Armstrong, who became the first person to walk on the moon, on July 20, 1969. This biography examines the complex legacy of Armstrong, as an astronaut and as an individual, to form a portrait of a great but reluctant hero who will forever be known as history's most famous space traveler.
Author
Series
NASA SP volume 6001
Publisher
[For sale by Office of Technical Services, Dept. of Commerce]
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Recounts the bold but dangerous mission to secure America's position as the first nation to reach the moon, revealing the dangers endured by its crew and the ways the mission brought renewal to a country ravaged by assassinations and war.
"In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft,...
Author
Publisher
Rand MacNally
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Describes the technological achievements, the basic spacecraft, the lunar module, and the ground support systems that helped put the first men on the moon. Also describes the training, the flight to and from the moon, the landing, and the experiments of the Apollo 11 crew.