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    The Race to the Moon: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Race to the Moon: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Race to the Moon: An Interactive History Adventure
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    The Race to the Moon: An Interactive History Adventure

    By Allison Lassieur

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    It’s the 1950s and 1960s, and the United States and Soviet Union are in a race to be the first to reach the moon. Will you:  Participate in the space race as a young scientist working on early rocket technology?  Experience the space race as a reporter following space “firsts” in both the Soviet Union and the United States?  Work as a member of Mission Control during the 1969 moon landing?  Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to glory, to shattered dreams, or even to death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781491415849
    The Race to the Moon: An Interactive History Adventure
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    Allison Lassieur

    Allison Lassieur once lived in Tennessee and traveled the path Hattie and her family might have followed from Nashville to the banks of the Mississippi River near Memphis. Today she lives in upstate New York and shares a 110-year-old house with her husband, her daughter, three dogs, two cats, and more history books than she can count.

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      The Race to the Moon - Allison Lassieur

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      About Your Adventure

      Chapter 1: Power Struggle

      Chapter 2: Enemies Rocket to Space

      Chapter 3: 1960s: The Race Heats Up

      Chapter 4: Finish Line: The Moon!

      Chapter 5: To the Moon and Beyond

      Timeline

      Other Paths to Explore

      Read More

      Internet Sites

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Back Cover

      For the best You Choose experience,

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      ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE

      YOU live in an exciting time—the space race. The Soviet Union started the race by launching the first satellite, Sputnik. The U.S. launched the satellite Explorer I, and the race was on! Who will win the race to the moon? No one knows.

      In this book you’ll explore how the choices people made led to a moon landing. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.

      Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.

      YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.

      CHAPTER 1

      Power Struggle

      At the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were the strongest countries in the world. At first they were friends. But the Soviets started controlling other countries. They thought they had a right to do this.

      Many of the countries didn’t want to be part of the Soviet Union. So the United States tried to help them fight the Soviets. The Soviet government was furious. It threatened to attack the U.S. A war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union could destroy both countries.

      Neither country really wanted to start a war with guns and bombs. But each wanted to show that it was better and stronger than the other. So they fought each other indirectly. They spied on each other. They threatened to drop nuclear bombs on each other. This non-war conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was called the Cold War.

      During the Cold War, communist and democratic countries grew increasingly fearful of one another.

      The space race began in the middle of the Cold War, which was a time of mistrust and fear. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first satellite, in 1957. The news stunned the U.S. Most Americans thought the Soviet Union was a backward country. Sputnik proved them wrong. It also proved that the Soviet Union had rockets that could send a nuclear bomb to the U.S.

      The launch of Sputnik was the first leg of the space race.

      The space race became a symbolic contest for world power between the two countries. There were no rules in the space race. But there was a goal and there would be a winner. President John F. Kennedy set the goal—get a man on the moon by the end of 1969. The space race was on!

      Lunar Orbiter 1 took photos

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