Cover image for To the moon! : the true story of the American heroes on the Apollo 8 spaceship
Title:
To the moon! : the true story of the American heroes on the Apollo 8 spaceship
ISBN:
9781524741013
Physical Description:
284 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Reading Level:
1180 L Lexile
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Summary:
The year was 1968, and the American people were still reeling from the spacecraft fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew a year earlier. On top of that, there were rumors that the Russian cosmonauts were getting ready to fly around the moon. NASA realized that they needed to take a bold step--and that they needed to take it now. They wanted to win the space race against Russia and hold true to President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. So in a risky move, a few days before Christmas of that year, they sent Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders to the moon!
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