"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
We often think of the moon landing as just one man's achievement. Team Moon takes a different look at the history of the moon landing and explores the 400,000 other people involved in the Apollo 11 mission and tells their story.
According to the reviews on Amazon, the book delves into the lives of the engineers and scientists who helped build the rocket and managed the mission and even into the life of the seamstress who sewed the astronauts spacesuits! Reviewers especially liked that the book tells the story of the moon landing from the perspective of the people on Earth and not from the astronauts.
Like many Amazon books, you can take a sneak peek into the book itself. While many of the pictures are black and white (because they didn't have color photos at that time), I still found them engaging and interesting, especially since they tended to be group shots of the Apollo 11 teams.
Thimmesh, C. (2006). Team moon: How 400,000 people landed apollo 11 on the moon.
(1 ed.). Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved from
http://www.amazon.com/Team-Moon-People-Landed-Apollo/dp/0618507574/ref=sr_1_28?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350753429&sr=1-28
What a great book! I want to buy this book and read it right now. I especially like the idea of the seamstresses being nervous when the astronauts starting jumping up and down on the moon. This is a great find for kids, big and small alike! Thanks for sharing, Spence!
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