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Behind every astronaut who set foot upon the moon and every figurehead who inspired us to get there was Project Apollo’s massive workforce: a team of individuals 400,000 strong – spanning race, socio-economics, culture and company – who came to understand that the overall program was only as good as the effort they put into it. When We Were Apollo is a feature-length documentary offering an intimate and personal look at the Apollo...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.
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On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon...
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Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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The Thea Sisters are in for a great adventure when they are invited by a professor at Mouseford Academy on a trip to the Moon.
17) Quack!
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Quack, a young duck, builds a rocket and goes to the moon, only to find that he misses home.
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Author Craig Nelson restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology, and execution. Through interviews, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Nelson creates a vivid and detailed account of the Apollo 11 mission. From the quotidian to the scientific to the magical, readers are...
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