| Contents |
A daring dream -- The first mission, Apollo 1 -- The mission continues -- To the sky, Apollo 4-6 -- Risking it all, Apollo 7 -- Aiming for the moon, Apollo 8 -- Spider in space, Apollo 9 -- Dress rehearsal, Apollo 10 -- Achieving the dream, Apollo 11. |
| Abstract |
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." But how can someone soar all the way to the Moon - two hundred and forty-thousand miles through space? America knows the answer to this question: teamwork. Over the two thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine days that follow President Kennedy's speech, eighteen astronauts climb into spaceships; three of them die before even leaving the ground. Eight rockets go into space. And four hundred thousand people - engineers, technicians, mathematicians, scientists, machinists, and more - join Project Apollo in hopes of making the dream a reality. -- From dust jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Interest age level |
Ages 8-12. |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 4 to 6. |
| Audience |
940 Lexile |
| Study program note |
Accelerated Reader |
| Genre/form | Historical poetry. |
| Genre/form | Free verse. |
| Genre/form | Instructional and educational works. |
| LCCN | 2017060838 |
| ISBN | 9781682630136 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1682630137 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781643108346 (library binding) |
| ISBN | 1643108344 (library binding) |
