First Moon Landing
Have you ever looked up at the sky, especially when there is a full moon and wondered what it would be like to travel to or walk on the moon? I'll admit I have as I've gazed at the night sky. I love my movies about space - Star Wars, Star Trek, The Martian to name a few. So imagine my interest when I realized that each year in July, it marks another anniversary of the first walk on the moon.

The Eagle reconnected to the Columbia and the journey back to Earth was started. Once it reentered the Earth's atmosphere, the parachutes opened and the module safely landed into the Pacific Ocean. Then helicopters picked up the crew and flew them back to a nearby recovery ship. If you'd like to see what this looked like, check out this clip. This is so unlike what we are used to seeing today when the space shuttles land like an airplane. Back then, the astronauts had to stay in quarantine because scientists were uncertain whether space travel would have any negative effects on humans.
Although this mission only lasted eight days, it is one of the most famous missions of the space program. To learn more about the mission, we have several great books on the subject that you can check out. Moonshot by Brian Floca (2012 Monarch nominee), Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds or Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh are just a few of the great titles about the Apollo 11 mission you'll want to read.
Apollo 11 books
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