The Apollo Missions for Kids: The People and Engineering Behind the Race to the Moon, with 21 Activities Volume 71

by Jerome Pohlen

Book Overview

In 1961, President Kennedy issued a challenge: before the end of the decade, the United States would land a person on the moon and return him safely to Earth--a bold proclamation at the time given that only one US astronaut had ever been to space, for just 15 minutes. To answer President
Kennedy's call, NASA embarked on the Apollo missions: a complicated, dangerous, and expensive adventure involving 400,000 people. Before the missions were over,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912777176
• ISBN13: 9780912777177
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 11.0" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7