Neil Armstrong - One Giant Leap for Mankind

Informationen zum Autor Tara Dixon-Engel & Mike Jackson Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Neil Armstrong was America's rocket man! the first person to set foot on the moon and turn science fiction into amazing reality. This book tells the story of how Armstrong went where no one had gone before! leaving his mark on the powdery surface of another world.

Product details

• Authors: Tara Dixon-Engel, Tara/ Jackson Dixon-Engel, Mike Jackson
• Publisher: Union Square
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 10
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.10.2008
• EAN: 9781402744969
• ISBN: 978-1-4027-4496-9
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 191 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Sterling Biographies; Sterling Biographies (Paperbac; Sterling Biographies; Sterling Biographies (Paperbac; Sterling Biographies(r); Sterling Biographies (R)
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology