Apollo 11 Rockets to First Moon Landing: A Myreportlinks.Com Book (Space Flight Adventures and Disasters)

Green, Carl R.

ISBN 10: 0766051641 ISBN 13: 9780766051645

Publisher: Myreportlinks.Com, 2004

Synopsis

Recounts the flight of the Apollo 11 which led to the first men on the moon, and discusses the origins of the Apollo program, the experiences of the astronauts, and related topics.

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Reviews

Reviewed with Henry M. Holden's Living and Working Aboard the International Space Station.

Gr. 4-6. In name, at least, the debuting series Space Adventures and Disasters speaks bluntly about the dangers that have lately muted space travel's thrills; even so, these two fascinating entries are likely to expand the ranks of aspiring astronauts. Not surprisingly, Apollo 11 is the more exciting of the two--a function, of course, of the inherent novelty and drama of the Eagle's now-aphoristic landing. Unusually thorough chapter notes support the content in both books where appropriate (moondust evidently smells "like gunpowder"), and a publisher-maintained Web portal is well stocked with links to relevant, prescreened sites. Both titles suffer from the cramped design template dictated by the MyReportLinks.com parent series--a Web browser-style border appears around every spread, and an awkwardly scaled-down screen grabs from Web site illustration. Both books, especially the unremittingly boosterish Space Station, might have devoted some time to the mounting controversy surrounding manned space flight. Nonetheless, these will serve as a solid launching pad for kids entertaining fantasies of shrugging off gravity's yoke. Jennifer Mattson
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Edition details

• Publisher: Myreportlinks.Com
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0766051641
• ISBN 13: 9780766051645
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 48