Presents the story of NASA's Apollo program and the lunar landings by American astronauts made between 1968 and 1972. Features rare archival footage and interviews with surviving astronauts.

"Explores various perspectives on the Apollo 11 moon landing. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"-- "You are an American living in the 1960s. The United States and Soviet Union are engaged in a space race for the most advanced space exploration technology. When President John F. Kennedy begins a new space program with a goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s, you want to be a part of it. Will you: Work on training...

Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.

"A stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon. First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legendary Margaret Hamilton, and detailed science populate the pages of this remarkable biography. In 1969, mankind successfully left our atmosphere and landed on the moon. It took countless hours of calculations, training, wonder, and sacrifice from all of...

Let's go on a rocket up high into space, where I can see the planets and the moon's big smiley face! there's no end to the excitement of this rocket ride! Toddlers will enjoy this simple rhyming text with vivid illustrations as they learn about diggers!

"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...