num_pages: 264
description: Everyone knows of Neil Armstrong's famous first steps on the moon. But what did it really take to get us there?The Moon landing is one of the most ambitious thrilling and dangerous ventures in human history. This fully illustrated book tells the stories of the 400000 unsung heroes--the engineers mathematicians seamstresses welders and factory workers--and their innovations and life-changing technological leaps forward that allowed NASA to achieve this unparalleled accomplishment.From the shocking launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik to the triumphant splashdown of Apollo 11 Caldecott Honor winner John Rocco answers every possible question about this world-altering mission. Each step in the space race is revealed examined and displayed through diagrams experiments moments of crisis and human stories.
language: English
title: How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure
publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers