Bibliograph

The race to space, countdown to liftoff, Erik Slader and Ben Thompson ; illustrations by Tim Foley

Type

Label

The race to space, countdown to liftoff, Erik Slader and Ben Thompson ; illustrations by Tim Foley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 146) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

1190L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The race to space

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1007750447

Responsibility statement

Erik Slader and Ben Thompson ; illustrations by Tim Foley

Series statement

Epic fails

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 8.1, 3, 3, 195890

Sub title

countdown to liftoff

Summary

"Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later that year, our first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it 'Kaputnik.' Still, we didn't give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better"--Amazon.com

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Countdown to liftoff

Classification