Marty's Mission: An Apollo 11 Story (Tales of Young Americans)

It's 1969 and Marty's family lives on the U.S. island of Guam, where his father manages the NASA tracking station. It's important work and never more so than during the Apollo 11 space mission, where the tracking station relays signals back and forth between the astronauts and Mission Control in Houston, Texas. Along with the rest of the world, Marty listens to every mission update, including the historic landing on the moon and astronaut Neil Armstrong's first steps. But during Apollo 11's return to Earth, something goes wrong. There is a problem with the tracking station's antenna during the final hours of the mission. The problem must be resolved--the antenna is the only way Mission Control can communicate with the astronauts before Apollo 11 splashes down. Marty finds himself playing a key role in helping bring the craft safely back to Earth. Based on actual events, young readers get a front-row seat to this historic event in this new entry in the Tales of Young Americans series.

• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))
• Papa Put a Man on the Moon
• Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
• One Giant Leap
• A Kite for Moon
• Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon (Mouse Adventures)
• The First Men Who Went to the Moon
• Margaret and the Moon
• Go for the Moon: A Rocket, a Boy, and the First Moon Landing
• Armstrong Special Edition: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon (Mouse Adventures)