Reaching for the Moon

2020-05-05 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Katherine Johnson
Release : 2020-05-05
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 844/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reaching for the Moon by : Katherine Johnson

Download or read book Reaching for the Moon written by Katherine Johnson. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This rich volume is a national treasure.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Captivating, informative, and inspiring…Easy to follow and hard to put down.” —School Library Journal (starred review) The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11. As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportunity did not always go hand in hand. As an African American and a girl growing up in an era of brutal racism and sexism, Katherine faced daily challenges. Still, she lived her life with her father’s words in mind: “You are no better than anyone else, and nobody else is better than you.” In the early 1950s, Katherine was thrilled to join the organization that would become NASA. She worked on many of NASA’s biggest projects including the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first men on the moon. Katherine Johnson’s story was made famous in the bestselling book and Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures. Now in Reaching for the Moon she tells her own story for the first time, in a lively autobiography that will inspire young readers everywhere.

Reaching for the Moon

2005-05-24 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Buzz Aldrin
Release : 2005-05-24
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 452/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reaching for the Moon written by Buzz Aldrin. This book was released on 2005-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I walked on the moon. This is my journey. But it didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 1, 1969. It began the day I was born. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of determination and believing that any goal is possible—from riding a bike alone across the George Washington Bridge at age ten to making a footprint on the Moon. I always knew the Moon was within my reach—and that I was ready to be on the team that would achieve the first landing. But it was still hard to believe when I took my first step onto the Moon's surface. We all have our own dreams. This is the story of how mine came true.

Reaching for the Moon

2019-06-25 Science

Author : Roger D Launius
Release : 2019-06-25
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 165/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reaching for the Moon written by Roger D Launius. This book was released on 2019-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers At the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power. In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and engagingly explores the driving force of this era: the race to the Moon. Beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 and closing with the end of the Apollo program in 1972, Launius examines how early space exploration blurred the lines between military and civilian activities, and how key actions led to space firsts as well as crushing failures. Launius places American and Soviet programs on equal footing—following American aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Robert Gilruth, their Soviet counterparts Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov—to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing.

Fallen Astronauts

2016-05-01 History

Author : Colin Burgess
Release : 2016-05-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 99X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fallen Astronauts written by Colin Burgess. This book was released on 2016-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book enriches the saga of humankind’s greatest scientific undertaking, Project Apollo, and conveys the human cost of the space race. Many people are aware of the first manned Apollo mission, in which Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives in a fire during a ground test, but few know of the other five fallen astronauts whose stories this book tells as well, including Ted Freeman and C.C. Williams, who died in the crashes of their T-38 jets; the “Gemini Twins,” Charlie Bassett and Elliot See, killed when their jet slammed into the building where their Gemini capsule was undergoing final construction; and Ed Givens, whose fatal car crash has until now been obscured by rumors. Supported by extensive interviews and archival material, the extraordinary lives and accomplishments of these and other fallen astronauts—including eight Russian cosmonauts who lost their lives during training—unfold here in intimate and compelling detail. Their stories return us to a stirring time in the history of our nation and remind us of the cost of fulfilling our dreams. This revised edition includes expanded and revised biographies and additional photographs.

Rare and Commonplace Flowers

2003 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Carmen L. Oliveira
Release : 2003
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 599/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rare and Commonplace Flowers written by Carmen L. Oliveira. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her relationship with the extraordinary Brazilian woman Lota de Macedo Soares.

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