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Team Moon
How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
By Thimmesh, Catherine
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-61850-757-3
- Publisher
- Houghton
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2006
Gr 5-Up In infectiously hyperbolic prose that -s liberally interspersed with quotes and accompanied by sheaves of period photos, Thimmesh retraces the course of the space mission that landed -an actual man, on the actual Moon. - It -s an oft-told tale, but the author tells it from the point of view not of astronauts or general observers, but of some of the 17,000 behind-the-scenes workers at Kennedy Space Center, the 7500 Grumm...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2006
From launch to splashdown, Thimmesh gives names and voices to the 400,000-strong army that got Neil Armstrong and company to the moon and back. Taking as her organizing principle the journey itself, she describes how each element was made possible by NASA and its many contractors. Thus readers learn about the 14,000 people at North American Rockwell who built the command module Columbia, the 17,000 people at NASA's launch operations, and so on, from the women who sewed the s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
