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152 pages
illustrations, portraits
Summary: 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, America's first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it "Kaputnik." Still, they didn't give up. With each failure, valuable information was gleaned about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So they tried again. And again
Epic fails