One Giant Leap for Mankind

July 16th, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, the first spaceflight that landed humans on the moon. It landed on the moon 4 days later.

  The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifts off
with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and , Edwin "Buzz" E. Aldrin Jr.,
at 9:32 a.m. EDT July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center. NASA [Public Domain].

You can learn more about this amazing feat of science and engineering by checking out one of these books at the library:

Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for its Historic Journey by Jonathan H. Ward

The Decision to go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest by John M. Logsdon

The First Men on the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 by David M. Harland

First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. by Neil Armstrong

Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott

Moon Landing, Project Apollo by James C. Sparks

Moon Men Return: USS Hornet and the Recovery of the Apollo 11 Astronauts by Scott W. Carmichael

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca

One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered by Piers Bizony

Rocket Launch: The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center by Jonathan H. Ward 

Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon.
You can see Neil Armstrong in the reflection of his visor.
 NASA [Public Domain].