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Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon

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By Andrew Chaikin; Victoria Kohl
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - (Viking Juvenile)
Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
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July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic moments in our historythe day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story. Mission Control, This Is Apollo, by the acclaimed Andrew Chaikin (author of A Man on the Moon, basis of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon), recounts space history from the Mercury missions through Apollo 17 and beyond. It is illustrated with stunning fullcolor paintings by astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the moon with Pete Conrad on Apollo 12 and has devoted his postNASA life to creating art. Handsome, informative, and dramatic, this is no textbookit is the tale of humankinds greatest adventure in the last frontier space.

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26584 words26,584 words
128 pages128 pages
Lexile 1150LLexile 1150L
Grade 6 to 9Grade 6 to 9
Age 11-14Age 11-14
Published 2009Published 2009

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Hear it contingency Hear it unmanned Hear it overleaf Hear it rille Hear it unpiloted Hear it moonwalk Hear it static Hear it tranquility Hear it footpad Hear it sandblasting Hear it reignite Hear it receptacle Hear it coherent Hear it spaceflight Hear it rendezvous Hear it drogue Hear it suborbital Hear it reverberation Hear it reentry Hear it splashdown Hear it workable Hear it totality Hear it hypersonic Hear it steepness Hear it untried Hear it panorama Hear it incomparable Hear it extravehicular Hear it enormity Hear it rigid Hear it unremarkable Hear it moonscape Hear it intrepid Hear it desolate Hear it subsurface Hear it fete Hear it reenter Hear it geologic Hear it abstract Hear it gnomon Hear it cutaway Hear it superb Hear it bulky Hear it suggestive Hear it undamaged Hear it counterpoint Hear it earthbound Hear it fireproof Hear it sextant Hear it intricate Hear it stiffness Hear it choppy Hear it inevitable Hear it battleground Hear it shorthand Hear it pinnacle Hear it mediocre Hear it serenity Hear it cylindrical Hear it homeward Hear it inferno Hear it prolonged Hear it frayed Hear it exasperation Hear it bleak Hear it makeshift
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Book ISBN:

9780670011568

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