Mission Control, This is Apollo
The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
New York : Viking, 2009.
Format: Book
Description: 114 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic moments in our history, the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story. Mission Control, This Is Apollo, by the acclaimed Andrew Chaikin recounts space history from the Mercury missions through Apollo 17 and beyond. It is illustrated with stunning full-color paintings by astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the moon with Pete Conrad on Apollo 12 and has devoted his post-NASA life to creating art. Handsome, informative, and dramatic, this is no textbook, it is the tale of humankind's greatest adventure in the last frontier: space.
Contents:
The sites of the Apollo Moon landings -- Apollo 101: a quick review -- A word from the artist -- Introduction: who were the astronauts? -- Apollo One -- Apollo Seven: when you gotta go, you gotta go -- Apollo Eight: all this and turkey, too -- Apollo Nine: the dark side of zero-G -- Apollo Ten: the Moon rocket -- Apollo Eleven: the group brain -- Apollo Twelve: clothes make the Moonwalker -- Apollo Thirteen: a last-minute swap -- Apollo Fourteen: lunar germs? -- Apollo Fifteen: live from the Moon -- Apollo Sixteen: left behind -- Apollo Seventeen: the Moon rocks (and what happened to them after they got to Earth) -- Epilogue -- About the paintings -- The write stuff: how we wrote this book -- On research and sources -- Index.
Subjects:
Project Apollo (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Space flight to the moon -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Astronautics -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Space flight to the moon -- Planning -- Juvenile literature.
Project Apollo (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Space flight to the moon -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Astronautics -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Space flight to the moon -- Planning -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 1150L
ISBN:
0670011568
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Includes bibliographical references and index.