Sterling Biographies®: Neil Armstrong: One Giant Leap for Mankind

by Tara Dixon-Engel, Mike Jackson

Overview

Neil Armstrong was America’s rocket man, the first person to set foot on the moon and turn science fiction into amazing reality. Award-winning authors Tara Dixon-Engel and Mike Jackson tell the fascinating story of how Armstrong went where no one had gone before, leaving his mark on the powdery surface of another world.
Even at an age when other boys were just learning to drive, Neil was training to reach the skies. He went on to study aeronautical engineering, win medals as a fighter pilot, try out the X-15 experimental rocket plane, and become one of the elite few chosen to be a NASA astronaut…where he took the test pilot’s credo of “higher, faster and farther” to thrilling heights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402744969
Publisher:	Union Square Kids
Publication date:	08/05/2008
Series:	Sterling Biographies®
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	10 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction: From Fiction to Reality     1
Beautiful Ohio     2
A Flying Boilermaker     11
Higher, Faster, Farther     18
Triumph and Tragedy     28
Up in the Air     37
Astronaut!     43
Project Gemini Begins     52
Into Space     59
Apollo Begins     68
Reaching for the Moon     74
Launch Time     82
The Eagle Has Landed     90
We Came in Peace     97
Rocket Man     110
Glossary     118
Bibliography     118
Source Notes     119
Image Credits     122
About the Authors     122
Index     123