First on the Moon : the Apollo 11 50th anniversary experience
(2019)
By:
Pyle, Rod
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
629.454/PYLE,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Sterling, [2019]
©2019
©2019
DESCRIPTION
xii, 193 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781454931973, 1454931973, 9781454931973
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Program alarm! -- Race to the Moon -- Men for the Moon -- How do we do this? -- The real stuff -- Apollo's children -- Moon machines I: The Saturn V -- Moon machines II: The Lunar module -- T-minus zero -- Arrival -- Down and safe -- Moonwalking -- Coming home -- Aftermath -- Back to the Moon
Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission by sharing firsthand accounts from exclusive interviews and accessible explanations of the mission's technical problems