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The race to space : countdown to liftoff

The race to space : countdown to liftoff

Slader, Erik, author.
Book 2018

"Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later that year, our first attempt was such a failure tha...

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ISBN:
9781250150622
9781250150615
1250150620
1250150612
Edition:
First edition
Description:
152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 146) and index
Contents:
Introduction: "Failure is not an option"
It's just rocket science!
Failure to launch
Dawn of the atomic age
Sputnik
The birth of NASA
The Mercury Seven
Project Gemini
A dangerous rendezvous
Tragedy
Apollo
One small step, one giant leap
We have a problem
The final frontier
LCCN:
2017958947
Control Number:
2587484
Other Authors:
Foley, Tim, 1962- illustrator
Thompson, Ben, 1980- author
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