Reaching for the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reaching for the Moon write by Katherine Johnson. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Reaching for the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This rich volume is a national treasure.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Captivating, informative, and inspiring…Easy to follow and hard to put down.” —School Library Journal (starred review) The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11. As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportunity did not always go hand in hand. As an African American and a girl growing up in an era of brutal racism and sexism, Katherine faced daily challenges. Still, she lived her life with her father’s words in mind: “You are no better than anyone else, and nobody else is better than you.” In the early 1950s, Katherine was thrilled to join the organization that would become NASA. She worked on many of NASA’s biggest projects including the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first men on the moon. Katherine Johnson’s story was made famous in the bestselling book and Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures. Now in Reaching for the Moon she tells her own story for the first time, in a lively autobiography that will inspire young readers everywhere.
Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reaching for the Moon write by Buzz Aldrin. This book was released on 2005-05-24. Reaching for the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I walked on the moon. This is my journey. But it didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 1, 1969. It began the day I was born. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of determination and believing that any goal is possible—from riding a bike alone across the George Washington Bridge at age ten to making a footprint on the Moon. I always knew the Moon was within my reach—and that I was ready to be on the team that would achieve the first landing. But it was still hard to believe when I took my first step onto the Moon's surface. We all have our own dreams. This is the story of how mine came true.
Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reaching for the Moon write by Roger D Launius. This book was released on 2019-06-25. Reaching for the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers At the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power. In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and engagingly explores the driving force of this era: the race to the Moon. Beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 and closing with the end of the Apollo program in 1972, Launius examines how early space exploration blurred the lines between military and civilian activities, and how key actions led to space firsts as well as crushing failures. Launius places American and Soviet programs on equal footing—following American aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Robert Gilruth, their Soviet counterparts Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov—to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing.
Rare and Commonplace Flowers
Rare and Commonplace Flowers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rare and Commonplace Flowers write by Carmen L. Oliveira. This book was released on 2003. Rare and Commonplace Flowers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The gripping story of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her relationship with the extraordinary Brazilian woman Lota de Macedo Soares.
Margaret and the Moon
Margaret and the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Margaret and the Moon write by Dean Robbins. This book was released on 2017-05-16. Margaret and the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A true story from one of the Women of NASA! Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote code that would allow the spacecraft’s computer to solve any problems it might encounter. Apollo 8. Apollo 9. Apollo 10. Apollo 11. Without her code, none of those missions could have been completed. Dean Robbins and Lucy Knisley deliver a lovely portrayal of a pioneer in her field who never stopped reaching for the stars.
