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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1200L
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth, America's rival in the Cold War claimed victory on a new frontier. The Space Race had begun, and the United States was losing. Closer to home, a decade of turbulence would soon have Americans reeling, with the...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Earthrise tells the story of the first time the planet Earth was photographed in colour from space. The photo, later called Earthrise, was taken in 1968 by the astronauts on Apollo 8, the first US space mission to break free of Earth's orbit and circle the Moon. The Apollo 8 astronauts were surveying the lunar surface for places to land future missions. As they were charting the Moon, they happened to look up just as Earth, in a flash of color and...
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