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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Told in free verse, the story of the American effort to land the first man on the moon comes to life. During the two thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine days following his speech, eighteen astronauts climbed into spaceships; three of them died before even leaving the ground. Eight rockets soared into space. And four hundred thousand people-- engineers, technicians, scientists, mathematicians, and machinists-- joined Project Apollo in hopes of making...
2) Daring Dozen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A gorgeous introduction to the twelve brave men who have left footprints on the moon, just in time to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took one small step and made history. Over the course of the next five years, twelve lunar explorers, including Alan Shepard and Gene Cernan, touched down on the moon's surface. Author and engineer Suzanne Slade reveals how the Apollo missions (1969-1972)...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Shares the story of the pioneering African American mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who helped calculate America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon.
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