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    Neil Armstrong and Traveling to the Moon
    Neil Armstrong and Traveling to the Moon
    Neil Armstrong and Traveling to the Moon
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    Neil Armstrong and Traveling to the Moon

    By Ben Hubbard

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    Join Neil Armstrong on his journey to the moon! This book examines the extraordinary life of the first astronaut to set foot on the moon, from his early life to his first trip aboard an American spacecraft. Discover what the space race was and other developments happening at the time. Find out about the rigorous training that astronauts undergo and how they prepare for a journey into the unknown.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9781484635483
    Neil Armstrong and Traveling to the Moon
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    Ben Hubbard

    Ben Hubbard is an accomplished non-fiction author for children and adults with over 150 titles to his name. He has written about many subjects, including space, samurai and sharks, to poison, pets and the Plantagenets. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in libraries around the world.

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      Neil Armstrong and Traveling to the Moon - Ben Hubbard

      CONTENTS

      Dreaming of the Moon

      Early Flyer

      Sending Men to the Moon

      Astronaut Armstrong

      The Apollo Program

      Focus on: Apollo 11 Spacecraft

      Countdown Begins

      Moon Landing

      Focus on: Walking on the Moon

      Earth Bound

      Life After Apollo

      Mission Accomplished?

      Timeline

      Glossary

      Find Out More

      Index

      All words in bold, like this, appear in the glossary on page 45.

      DREAMING OF THE MOON

      On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong paused on the bottom rung of his Lunar Module ladder and looked down. The surface appears to be very, very fine grained as you get close to it; it’s almost like a powder, he reported over his helmet radio.

      Then, as around 600 million people watched from their television sets on Earth, Armstrong lowered his left foot onto the Moon’s surface. He had just become the first human in history to step onto another world. His following words would be forever printed in the history books beside his name: That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

      Lunar stories

      Before scientists began working to get astronauts into space, science fiction writers made up stories about people being towed to the Moon by geese or flown aboard hot-air balloons. In his 1865 book, From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne described three men traveling to the Moon on a rocket. This was a remarkable prediction of the Apollo 11 Moon mission that took place 84 years later.

      TOP PLACE IN SPACE

      Sending three astronauts to the Moon aboard Apollo 11 was one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments. However, just 12 years earlier, the United States did not even have the technology to launch a rocket into space. At that time, it was losing a race to space against its rival, the Soviet Union. Only an ambitious plan like a Moon landing would get the United States on top. All it had to do was design and build the spacecraft and train astronauts to fly in them. Neil Armstrong became the most famous of these astronauts.

      Edwin Buzz Aldrin is shown stepping onto the Moon to join Neil Armstrong, who is taking the photograph.

      EARLY FLYER

      Neil Alden Armstrong was born in the small town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 5, 1930.

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