published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us design and production by Ellen Huber art direction by Rita Marshall printed by Corporate Graphics in the United States of America photographs by Alamy Art Directors TRIP INTERFOTO Corbis Bettmann Dreamstime Masi Gianluca Getty Images Apic Ralph Morse Time Life Pictures NASA Newsmakers NASA Time Life Pictures Rolls Press Popperfoto SSPL Space Frontiers Hulton Archive World Perspectives The Granger Collection NYC iStockphoto Mike Bentley Brandon Laufenberg NASA Copyright 2012 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher library of congress cataloging-in-publication data for the hardcover edition Bodden Valerie To the moon by Valerie Bodden p cm Great expeditions Includes bibliographical references and index Summary A history of America’s famed Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 detailing the challenges encountered the individuals involved the discoveries made and how the expedition left its mark upon the world ISBN 978-1-60818-068-4 hardcover ISBN 978-1-56660-044-6 eBook 1 Project Apollo U S History Juvenile literature 2 Space flight to the moon History Juvenile literature I Title TL789 8 U6A52195 2011 629 45’4 dc22 2010033549 CPSIA 110310 PO1383 First Edition 246897531
Table of Contents Chapters The Race for Space 7 The Greatest Adventure 17 An Eagle Lands 27 One Small Step 35 Apollo 11 Profiles Neil Armstrong 13 Buzz Aldrin 23 Michael Collins 33 Gene Kranz 41 Expedition Journal Entries A Happy Home 9 What More Could You Say 19 No Trouble to Walk Around 29 All You See Is the Three of Us 37 Timeline 44 Endnotes 45 Selected Bibliography 46 For Further Reading 47 Index 48
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The Race for Space Throughout history human beings have gazed on the stars but in the mid-20th century people began to reach for them literally During the 1950s and 60s scientists in both the United States and the Soviet Union worked to develop ways to launch men into the heavens and eventually to the moon In 1969 this goal was finally 7 T o t h e M o o n achieved when American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 lunar mission became the first human beings to walk on the moon Their steps forever changed the way humankind looked at Earth’s satellite Apollo 11’s advanced modules and rockets were constructed Yet for hundreds of years people could only guess what the surface of the moon might look like Around 1600 British scientist William Gilbert drew a map of the moon based on observations made with the naked eye The map depicted Earth’s satellite as being much like Earth itself with continents surrounded by oceans Less than a decade later the invention of the telescope aided humankind’s ability to see the features of the moon In 1610 Italian scientist Galileo Galilei published drawings of the moon as seen through a telescope His sketches revealed a surface covered with craters and mountains Although Galileo did not see any water he believed that any oceans on at facilities throughout Southern California and locations around the country Centuries before Apollo 11 rocketed to the moon though people had looked to that heavenly body in wonder and admiration Many cultures worshiped lunar gods or developed myths about figures such as the man in the moon People the world over used the moon’s phases as a calendar and some cultures created megaliths that may have served to record or predict the moon’s orbital pattern
