When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
Photographs and text chronicle the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to reach the moon, looking at the lengths to which each nation went to keep an eye on what the other was doing, and discussing how the contest evolved into a partnership.
Collects fourteen documents from and about the space race, including news articles, excerpts from speeches by U.S. leaders, personal accounts by astronauts, and three essays on the race's impact on Soviet and American society and culture.
An illustrated biography of American astronaut Neil Armstrong, telling of his life and experiences as the first man to walk on the moon through a series of questions and answers.
Discusses American businessman Dennis Tito and his historic trip to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft as the first tourist to pay for space travel.
