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Item specifics
- Condition
- Modified Item
- Yes
- Inscribed
- No
- Title
- Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the
- Personalized
- No
- Signed
- Yes
- Age Level
- Adults, Young Adults
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780670011568
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
ISBN-10
0670011568
ISBN-13
9780670011568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70950669
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mission Control, this Is Apollo : the Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Technology / Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science, General, History / United States / 20th Century
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Bean, Alan, Yes
Genre
Juvenile Nonfiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
11.6 in
Item Width
10.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Juvenile Audience
LCCN
2009-000833
Reviews
A beautiful, insightful, and highly readable presentation of the Apollo missions. - Booklist , starred review They effectively highlight the Apollo program's magnificent achievements, as well as its moments of tension and tragedy. Supplemented with an admixture of photos and labeled diagrams, the large-scale art adds a dazzling visual element to this grand commemoration. - School Library Journal , starred review This unique portrait of the Apollo voyages is a remarkable combination of intimate details of the space flights, historical and scientific details about the missions, and paintings by one of the astronauts. The extended introduction presents the mindset of America after Sputnik that set the stage for America's space program. Students will delight in details such as toilet procedures, meals, and clothing for moon walking. - VOYA , starred review, A beautiful, insightful, and highly readable presentation of the Apollo missions. - Booklist , starred review They effectively highlight the Apollo program''s magnificent achievements, as well as its moments of tension and tragedy. Supplemented with an admixture of photos and labeled diagrams, the large-scale art adds a dazzling visual element to this grand commemoration. - School Library Journal , starred review This unique portrait of the Apollo voyages is a remarkable combination of intimate details of the space flights, historical and scientific details about the missions, and paintings by one of the astronauts. The extended introduction presents the mindset of America after Sputnik that set the stage for America's space program. Students will delight in details such as toilet procedures, meals, and clothing for moon walking. - VOYA , starred review, A beautiful, insightful, and highly readable presentation of the Apollo missions. -- Booklist , starred review They effectively highlight the Apollo program's magnificent achievements, as well as its moments of tension and tragedy. Supplemented with an admixture of photos and labeled diagrams, the large-scale art adds a dazzling visual element to this grand commemoration. -- School Library Journal , starred review This unique portrait of the Apollo voyages is a remarkable combination of intimate details of the space flights, historical and scientific details about the missions, and paintings by one of the astronauts. The extended introduction presents the mindset of America after Sputnik that set the stage for America's space program. Students will delight in details such as toilet procedures, meals, and clothing for moon walking. -- VOYA , starred review
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Third Grade
Grade To
Seventh Grade
Dewey Decimal
629.45/4
Synopsis
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 (author of "A Man on the Moon," basis of the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon"), 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., 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 (author of A Man on the Moon , basis of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon ), 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.
LC Classification Number
TL789.8.U6A5244 2009
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