Destination Moon : the remarkable and improbable voyage of Apollo 11 / Richard Maurer.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781626727458
- 1626727457
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The history of NASA's Apollo program from Earth orbital missions to lunar landings in a propulsive nonfiction narrative.
Only now, it is becoming clear how exceptional and unrepeatable Apollo was. At its height, it employed almost half a million people, many working seven days a week and each determined that "it will not fail because of me."
Beginning with fighter pilots in World War II, Maurer traces the origins of the Apollo program to a few exceptional soldiers, a Nazi engineer, and a young eager man who would become president.
Packed with adventure, new stories about familiar people, and undeniable danger, Destination Moon takes an unflinching look at a tumultuous time in American history, told expertly by nonfiction author Richard Maurer.
Ages 10-14.
Presents a clear narrative on how the United States won the space race against Russia by landing a man on the Moon in 1969.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-379) and index.