Moon
By: Stewart Ross
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780545127325
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Exploration; Space flight to the moon; Lunar exploration; Apollo project; Project Apollo (U.S.); Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
Description: This special book written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing combines the story of the preparation, journey, arrival, and landing of Apollo 11 with scientific information about the Moon and its influence on our culture through music, theater, literature, and more.
Notes: Originally published: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (page 127) and index.
Table of contents: title: Countdown ; Liftoff! ; The Moon ; Moonlight ; How it All Began ; Ancient Explanations ; Toward Science ; Into Orbit! ; What's in a Name? ; Spacemen ; Muslim Foundations ; Moon Gods ; Moon Goddesses ; Moon Worship ; Science's Revolution ; Moon Probes ; Apollo; title: The Tragedy ; Newton's Moon ; Hey Diddle Diddle! ; Man in the Moon ; Creation ; Moon Men! The Mighty Saturn ; Moon Movies ; Moon Horror ; On Target ; The Changing Moon ; Moonlit Love ; Eclipse ; The Pioneers ; Time and Tide ; Moon Music ; Zero Hour.; title: Moon Song ; Moon Matter ; Here We Come! ; The Eagle Has Landed! ; Moon Map ; The White Beauty ; One Small Step ; Dramatic Moon ; Lunar Atmosphere ; Men from Earth ; Lunar Gravity ; Lunacy ; Homeward Bound ; The Dark Side ; Splashdown! ; The Moon as a Symbol ; Art and Science ; Painted Moon ; Return to the Moon ; Living on the Moon ; Unseen Influence ; Lunar Dating ; Moonbeams ; Moon Info ; Moon Dates ; Moon Sites.