Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon Hardcover - 2009
by Andrew L. Chaikin; Alan Bean (Illustrator); Victoria Kohl (With)
July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic momentsin our history - the day Apollo 11 landed on themoon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story.Mission Control, This Is Apollo, by the acclaimed AndrewChaikin (author of A Man on the Moon, basisof the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon),recounts space history from the Mercury missionsthrough Apollo 17 and beyond. It is illustrated withstunning full-color paintings by astronaut AlanBean, who walked on the moon with Pete Conradon Apollo 12 and has devoted his post-NASA life tocreating art. Handsome, informative, and dramatic,this is no textbook - it is the tale of humankind'sgreatest adventure in the last frontier: space.
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- Title Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
- Author Andrew L. Chaikin; Alan Bean (Illustrator); Victoria Kohl (With)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Ed
- Pages 114
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Children's Books, New York
- Date 2009-05-28
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780670011568 / 0670011568
- Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 11.3 x 10.1 x 0.7 in (28.70 x 25.65 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 1150
- Library of Congress subjects Project Apollo (U.S.), Space flight to the moon
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009000833
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.454
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