The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff cover

The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff

Author: Slader, Erik

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 8.1
Points 3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 15534
Points per Word 0.000193
Page Count 152
Points per Page 0.019737

Description

America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. The coauthor is Ben Thompson. #2