Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11's Third Man

Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11's Third Man

by Alex Irvine and Ben Bishop
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Publication Date: 28/03/2017

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*Junior Library Guild Selection 2017*


A unanimous selection to the 2018 Maverick Graphic Novel List!


This graphic retelling of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission follows astronaut Michael Collins, commander of the lunar orbiter, to the far side of the moon.


When the Earth disappears behind the moon, Collins loses contact with his fellow astronauts on the moon’s surface, with mission control at NASA, and with the entire human race, becoming more alone than any human being has ever been before. In total isolation for 21 hours, Collins awaits word that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have managed to launch their moon lander successfully to return to the orbiter—a feat never accomplished before and rendered more problematic by the fuel burn of their difficult landing. In this singularly lonely and dramatic setting, Collins reviews the politics, science, and engineering that propelled the Apollo 11 mission across 239,000 miles of space to the moon.


Fountas & Pinnell Level U

ISBN:
9780884485377
9780884485377
Category:
Cartoons & comic strips (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
28-03-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tilbury House Publishers
Alex Irvine

Alex Irvine's novel A Scattering of Jades won the Crawford Award for Best New Writer.

He also won awards for Best New Novel from Locus Magazine and The International Horror Guild and was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

He is an acclaimed writer of novelizations including Transformers Exodus. Iron Man: Virus, and Pacific Rim, which won the Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel.

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