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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