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A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind. At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Neil Armstrong: The first man on the moon, astronaut, Apollo 11 mission commander
- Buzz Aldrin: The second man on the moon, Apollo 11 LM pilot
- Michael Collins: Apollo 11 CM pilot
- Gene Kranz: mission control representative
- Richard Nixon: President of the United States at the time of Apollo 11
- John Glenn: First American to orbit the earth, one of the Mercury 7
- Alan Sheperd: the first American in space, Mercury program astronaut
- Chris Kraft: flight director of Apollo 11
- Deke Slayton: Chief astronaut
- Jim Lovell: Neil Armstrong's backup
- John F. Kennedy: President who set the goal of reaching the moon within the 1960s
- Yuri Gagarin: first man in space, Soviet astronaut
Organizations edit
First Sentence edit
In 1969, a few months after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, Rhode Island's Senator John Pastore was interrogating Fermilab physicist Robert Wilson at a Senate hearing on whether the federal government should spend $250 million to build a new collider or, On May 20, 1969, at 12:30 p.m. EST, a 363-foot, thirty-story-high black-and-white Saturn V rocket known as AS506 was painstakingly trundled five miles across the raging heat and searing green of central Florida's eastern coast by an eleven-man Kennedy Space Center Crew aboard the world's largest land vehicle, a six-million pound, tank-wheeled crawler out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, itself a 129-million-cubic-foot edifice so massive that its steel accordion doors were forty-five stories high and, without its ten-thousand-ton air conditioner, interior clouds would form under its 525-foot-high ceiling...and it would rain.
Table of Contents edit
Part 1
1 Behemoth
2 The General's Command
3 Anything but What He is
4 The Sons of Galileo
5 Mr. Cool Stone
6 Don't Eat Toads
7 A Way to Talk to God
Part 2
8 How the Pyramids Were Built
9 Total Cold War
10 The Bluff at Nobleman's Grave
11 The Fluid Front
12 The Transfiguration
Part 3
13 The Great Black Sea
14 The Birth of the Moon
15 The Eagle Has Wings
16 One of Those Sad Days When You Lose a Machine
17 "Mr. President, the Eagle Has Landed"
18 To Rediscover Childhood
19 A Tenuous Grasp
20 We Missed the Whole Thing
21 Through You, We Touched the Moon
22 When All Those Curves Lined Up
Authors & Contributors edit
- Craig Nelson (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 629.4540973
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsQuite technical in detail making it a difficult read for young teens.
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › 1960s
- Books › Science › Astronomy › Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Books › Science › Technology › History of Technology
- Books › History
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