Apollo 8 : the mission that changed everything

Resource Information

The work Apollo 8 : the mission that changed everything represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Apollo 8 : the mission that changed everything

Title remainder

the mission that changed everything

Statement of responsibility

Martin W. Sandler

Title variation

Apollo eight

Creator

• Sandler, Martin W.,

Author

• Sandler, Martin W.,

Subject

• Project Apollo (U.S.)
• Project Apollo (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature
• Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)
• Space flight to the moon -- Juvenile literature
• Space flight to the moon
• Apollo 8 (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

Summary

"A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth, America's rival in the Cold War claimed victory on a new frontier. The Space Race had begun, and the United States was losing. Closer to home, a decade of turbulence would soon have Americans reeling, with the year 1968 alone seeing the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as well as many violent clashes between police and protesters. Americans desperately needed something good to believe in, and NASA's mission to orbit Earth in Apollo 8 and test a lunar landing module was being planned for the end of the year. But with four months to go and the module behind schedule, the CIA discovered that the USSR was preparing to send its own mission around the moon--another crucial victory in the Space Race--and it was clearly time for a change of plan. In a volume full of astonishing full-color photographs, including the iconic Earthrise photo, Martin W. Sandler unfolds an incredible chapter in U.S. history: Apollo 8 wouldn't just orbit Earth, it would take American astronauts to see the dark side of the moon."--Amazon

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

629.454

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

TL789.8.U6

LC item number

A5814 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

juvenile