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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield to protect the capsule during its fiery reentry. It belongs to the flight directors, camera designers, software experts, suit testers, telescope...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 6 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the dramatic story of the Apollo missions and their heroic astronauts. Go from President John F. Kennedy's historic speech to the manned space missions and through to the defining moment of the space program -- putting a man on the moon. These are the stories of the men, women and children who lived, breathed and manufactured from the power of human will, one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 6 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the dramatic story of the Apollo missions and their heroic astronauts. Go from President John F. Kennedy's historic speech to the manned space missions and through to the defining moment of the space program - putting a man on the moon. These are the stories of the men, women and children who lived, breathed and manufactured from the power of human will, one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind.
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor. But Apollo has many enemies—gods, monsters, and mortals who would love to see the former...
5) Moon landing
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the first Moon landing, describing how engineers, mathematicians, and astronauts worked together to send Apollo 11 into space.
Author
Language
English
Description
At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination: the moon. Rocket Men is the thrilling story of the moon mission, and it restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The Apollo 11 astronauts have prepared carefully for their attempt to be the first men to land on the moon. The young narrator of this book has prepared carefully, too: he explains the design of the spacecraft, the flight from the earth to the moon, and the drama of touching down-while shadowing the astronaut's voyage with one of his own. Go for the Moon captures the fascinating detail and inspiring adventure of the moon landing. It is a captivating...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasn't just one man who got us to the moon. Rocket to the Moon! explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one person's life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Apollo 11 mission draws to a close there is a crisis at the tracking station on Guam: the antenna that will track the spacecraft during reentry, and allow mission control to communicate with the astronauts is stuck--and ten-year-old Marty is the only one small enough to reach in and grease the ball bearings that allow the antenna to move.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Neil Armstrong's first small step to Gene Cernan's last footprint, award-winning author Suzanne Slade captures the experiences of the twelve astronauts who walked on the moon. The book reveals how the Apollo moon missions (1969-1972) built upon one another and unveiled important new discoveries about our nearest neighbor in space."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shares the story of the remarkable NASA scientists and engineers who created America's space program and fulfilled President Kennedy's mandate to put a man on the Moon before 1970.
President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the scientists and engineers at NASA, who suddenly had less than a decade to invent...
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a flock of angry birds threaten Zeus and his fellow Olympians, they need the help of a new friend--assuming the stranger is actually a friend! After a horrible drought, Zeus and his fellow Olympians are determined to help restore the land as they try to figure out their current mission, to find a special shield called an aegis. Thanks to some grateful villagers, who benefit from the rain and crops that the young Olympians magically create,...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Who were the men and women of the Apollo Space Program? Where are they today? What do they think of the extraordinary effort they helped make possible? Half a century later, Project Apollo remains the single greatest initiative in peacetime the world has ever known. Its story speaks to the most beautiful characteristics of our humanity: a metaphor for our ability to rise to challenges once thought insurmountable and push past them with even bigger...
14) For all mankind
Series
Criterion collection volume 54
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the historic first landing of men on the moon, with official film taken by the Apollo crew and backup film on the space program.
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Athletic Artemis rails against the all-boys' Olympic Games at Mount Olympus Academy, which leaves her at odds with her twin brother, Apollo, while a mortal boy named Actaeon catches her eye.
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leaving the safety of the demigod training ground, a disgraced Apollo embarks on a quest across North America to find a dangerous ancient-world Oracle while navigating the challenges of the evil Triumvirate.
18) Apollo 11
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at Apollo 11, NASA's 1969 mission to land on the moon, led by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 4
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying"--
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 5
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? ... Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's final challenge will be at the Tower of Nero, back in New York. Will Meg have a last showdown with her father? Will this helpless form of Apollo have to face his arch-nemesis, Python?...
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