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Language
English
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The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first journey to the Moon on Christmas in 1968. With a focus on astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their wives and children, this is a vivid, gripping, you-are-there narrative that shows anew the epic danger involved, and the singular bravery it took, for man to leave Earth for the first time - and to arrive at a new world. Print run 50,000....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of how the first mission to the moon, Apollo 8, pioneered groundbreaking technologies that would pave the way to land a man on the moon and win the space race.
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...
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...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
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