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Team Moon

by Catherine Thimmesh Author

How 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. Includes fascinating background information on the different teams assigned to create, test, re-test, produce, and support the various systems needed for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the moon and to televise the event. First-hand accounts and quotations are sprinkled throughout (which unfortunately include two short instances of swearing, but both can easily be edited if reading aloud) along with lots of photographs. A wonderful mixture of technical facts presented with human faces.

Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0618507574
Print Status
In Print
Sections
4
Pages
80
Suggested Grades
4th - 12th
Geographical Setting
New York, Italy, Florida, Texas, Australia, Pacific Ocean, space
Historical Setting
1961 - 1969
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Copyright
2006

Sections

  • 1 Beyond Imagination, In the Beginning, Moving Forward, And Onward, And Upward, Maiden Voyage...The Final 10 Miles
  • 2 Challenge 1: Alarms, Challenge 2: Almost Empty, Landing Spread, Challenge 3: Frozen Slug
  • 3 Challenge 4: First Steps, Challenge 5: Wind, Challenge 6: The Alien Environment
  • 4 Homeward Bound....The Final 240,000 Miles, Challenge 7: Images and Glitches, Challenge 8: Open Chutes

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