The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff by Thompson, Ben

The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff

In this second installment of the Epic Fails series, explore the many failures that made up the...
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The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff by Thompson, Ben

The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff

$23.75

The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff

$23.75
Author: Ben Thompson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In this second installment of the Epic Fails series, explore the many failures that made up the Race to Space, paving the way for humanity's eventual success at reaching the stars.

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, our first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it "Kaputnik." Still, we didn't give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better.

The Epic Fails series by Erik Slader and Ben Thompson explores the humorous backstories behind a variety of historical discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations that didn't go as expected but succeeded nonetheless, showing that many of mankind's biggest success stories are the result of some pretty epic failures indeed.

This title has Common Core connections.

Author: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 07/10/2018
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781250150622
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.1
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 195890 / Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff


Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author

Ben Thompson is the author of a dozen books on various awesome historical subjects including the Guts & Glory series, and has appeared on television programs for the History Channel, Discovery, and the American Heroes Channel. He has written for Cracked, Fangoria, Soldier of Fortune, and The American Mustache Institute, currently owns four swords (if you count a letter opener shaped like Glamdring the Foe-Hammer), and can occasionally beat the Star Wars Trilogy arcade game with a single quarter.

Erik Slader is the creator of "Epik Fails of History" a blog (and podcast) about the most epic fails... of history. With Ben Thompson, Erik is the coauthor of the Epic Fails book series, including The Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving Into History and Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff.


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