The race to space: countdown to liftoff

✍ Scribed by Foley, Tim;Slader, Erik;Thompson, Ben

• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Series: Epic Fails #2
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later that year, our first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it 'Kaputnik.' Still, we didn't give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better"--Amazon.com.

✦ Subjects

Aeronautical engineers;Aeronautical engineers--United States;Aeronautics;Aeronautics--United States;Astronauts;Exploration of outer space;Space flight;Space race;Electronic books;Biographies;Juvenile works;Space race -- Juvenile literature;Aeronautical engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature;Aeronautics -- United States -- Juvenile literature;Space flight -- Juvenile literature;Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature;Astronauts -- Juvenile literature;Outer space;