# Team Moon

**Author:** Catherine Thimmesh
**Grade range:** Grades 5–9
**First published:** 2006
**Page count:** 85
**ISBN-13:** `9780547349695`
**ISBN-10:** `0547349696`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/team-moon
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

"This behind-the-scenes look at the first Apollo moon landing has the feel of a public television documentary in its breadth and detail" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield to protect the capsule during its fiery reentry. It belongs to the flight directors, camera designers, software experts, suit testers, telescope crew, aerospace technicians, photo developers, engineers, and navigators. Gathering direct quotes from some of these folks who worked behind the scenes, Catherine Thimmes

## Where this book is assigned

### Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2007 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2007 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2007 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2007 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2007 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)

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