Apollo for juniors

摘要

With introduction by Helen Sharman, this little book has been produced in a cooperation between UCLan (University for Central Lancashire) and the British Interplanetary Society, with further help from several BIS volunteers. Aimed at the higher pre-teen years, it uses basic NASA PR material to tell the story of Apollo 11. It consists of a set of descriptive spreads identifying the separate steps of the mission while asking basic questions regarding operational methods which it then attempts to answer - and it does that very well.Although its intended audience is junior, the book provides a "go-to" reference much as the original NASA Press Kit did 50 years ago. But this book has the advantage of hindsight and little side-bars doubling as captions add a reflective dimension while in other places it adds information unavailable to the general public at the time; such as, just what the President would say if the crew had been unable to return to Earth.