Reaching for the Moon

  • Reaching for the Moon
    By Edited by Julia Park Tracey

    Later—the “other intern” Dr. Peterson came in this afternoon. He's just the opposite of Dr. Paulson. Silly, blond, modern—but fully as fascinating. He took my diary and calmly read it. What could I do? Then he laughed at my maternal ...

  • Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race
    By Roger D Launius

    In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and engagingly explores the driving force of this era: the race to the Moon.

  • Reaching for the Moon
    By Pearce H Lucy

    Reaching for the Moon is the girls' version of Lucy H. Pearce's Amazon bestselling book Moon Time: harness the ever-changing energy of your menstrual cycle for girls aged 9-14 as they anticipate and experience their body's changes.

  • Reaching for the Moon: A Memoir
    By Mark Carroll

    Reaching for the Moon is an honest portrayal of singer-pianist Mark Carroll's lifelong journey navigating the allures and pitfalls of the entertainment industry during the heyday of club singers like Peggy Lee and Jeri Southern.

  • Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
    By Katherine Johnson

    church every week, that meant the Methodists attended the Baptist church and the Baptists attended the Methodist church on the weeks when their pastor wasn't preaching. During the summer they held a combined picnic.

  • Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
    By Katherine Johnson

    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.

  • Reaching for the Moon
    By Roger D. Launius

    Montgomery, Scott L. The Moon and the Western Imagination. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. The author has produced a richly detailed analysis of how the Moon has been visualized in Western culture through the ages, ...

  • Reaching for the Moon
    By Buzz Aldrin

    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: More Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen (1927-1929)
    By Edited by Julia Park Tracey

    Im glad Im alive. Doris Louise Bailey, a teen in the Prohibition era, writes this sentiment over and over in her diaries as she struggles with a life-threatening bout of scarlet fever.

  • Reaching for the Moon: The Apollo Astronauts
    By Hal Marcovitz

    Surveys the achievements of the Apollo program and the astronauts and other individuals who made the program a success.