{"id":1485,"date":"2009-07-20T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T13:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2012-04-24T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:48:45","slug":"in-the-news-apollo-11-nasa-and-a-walk-on-the-moon-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-apollo-11-nasa-and-a-walk-on-the-moon-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Apollo 11, NASA, and a Walk on the Moon – 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"

See “In the News” posts from 2007 to present at:
\n<\/em>http:\/\/www.library.fau.edu\/depts\/cd\/newsprev.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Week of July 20, 2009<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

News Item: <\/strong>Humans took their first steps on the moon forty years ago when U.S. astronauts Edwin E. Aldrin, Neil A. Armstrong, and Michael Collins blasted off into space during the Apollo 11 mission.<\/p>\n

Pick up one of these titles to learn more about the Apollo Program, the ” space race,” and the history behind the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).<\/p>\n

*** See the end of this post for In the News<\/em> items related to Frank McCourt<\/strong> and Walter Cronkite<\/strong>. ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Apollo<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox. South Mountain Books, 2004
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U6 A558 2004<\/p>\n

Apollo in Perspective: Spaceflight Then and Now<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Jonathan Allday. Institute of Physics Pub., 2000
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

“Before This Decade is Out–“: Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program<\/em><\/strong>
\nEdited by Glen E. Swanson. University Press of Florida, 2002
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U6 A5187 2002<\/p>\n

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Exploring Space, Exploring Earth: New Understanding of the Earth from Space Research<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Paul D. Lowman. Cambridge University Press, 2002
\nCall Number: QE33.2 .R4 L69 2002 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

The First Men on the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By David M. Harland. Praxis Publishing Ltd., 2007
\nCall Number: Available online via SpringerLink<\/p>\n

First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin. Little, Brown, 1970
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U6 A516<\/p>\n

For All Mankind<\/em> <\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Al Reinert. Criterion Collection, 1999
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U5 K4 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

The Illustrated History of NASA<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Robin Kerrod. Gallery Books, 1988
\nCall Number: TL788.5 .K47 1988<\/p>\n

In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Francis French and Colin Burgess. University of Nebraska Press, 2007
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Howard E. McCurdy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
\nCall Number: TL521.312 .M33 1993<\/p>\n

The Invasion of the Moon, 1957-1970<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Peter Ryan. Penguin, 1971
\nCall Number: TL789 .U6 A5813 1971<\/p>\n

Keeping the Dream Alive: Putting NASA and America Back in Space<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Michael C. Simon. Earth Space Operations, 1987
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U5 S53 1987<\/p>\n

The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Steven J. Dick and James E. Strick. Rutgers University Press, 2004
\nCall Number: QH325 .D53 2004<\/p>\n

Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Greg Klerkx. Pantheon Books, 2004
\nCall Number: TL521.312 .K54 2004<\/p>\n

Lunar Photographs from Apollos 8, 10, and 11<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Compiled by Robert G. Musgrove. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1971
\nCall Number: QB595 .M88<\/p>\n

Mission to the Moon: A Critical Examination of NASA and the Space Program<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Erlend A. Kennan and Edmund H. Harvey, Jr. Morrow, 1969
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U5 K4<\/p>\n

The Moon-Doggle: Domestic and International Implications of the Space Race<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Amitai Etzioni. Doubleday, 1964
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U5 E8<\/p>\n

NASA\/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Constance Penley. Verso, 1997
\nCall Number: E169.04 .P45 1997<\/p>\n

Of a Fire on the Moon<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Norman Mailer. Little, Brown, 1970
\nCall Number: TL799 .M6 M26<\/p>\n

Outpost on Apollo’s Moon<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Eric Burgess. Columbia University Press, 1993
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

Reinventing NASA: Human Spaceflight, Bureaucracy, and Politics<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Roger Handberg. Praeger, 2003
\nCall Number: TL521.312 .H345 2003<\/p>\n

Return to Earth<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., with Wayne Warga. Random House, 1973
\nCall Number: TL789.85. A4 A3<\/p>\n

The Soviet Space Race with Apollo<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Asif A. Siddiqi. University Press of Florida, 2003
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .S65 S49 2003<\/p>\n

Space and the American Imagination<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Howard E. McCurdy. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U5 M338 1997<\/p>\n

Space Policy in the Twenty-First Century<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by W. Henry Lambright. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U5 S588 2003<\/p>\n

Space Politics and Policy: An Evolutionary Perspective<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Eligar Sadeh. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U5 S593 2002<\/p>\n

Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Donald A. Beattie. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U6 A5186 2001 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

To the Moon<\/em> <\/strong>(VHS)
\nDirected by Kirk Wolfinger. WGBH Video, 1999
\nCall Number: TL789.8 .U6 T684 1999 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

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Also In the News…<\/p>\n

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Frank McCourt<\/strong>, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, dies ( August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009)<\/p>\n

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Frank McCourt. Scribner, 1996
\nCall Number: E184 .I6 M117 1996<\/p>\n

Teacher Man: A Memoir<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Frank McCourt. Scribner, 2005
\nCall Number: LA2317 .M36 A3 2005<\/p>\n

‘Tis: A Memoir<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Frank McCourt. Scribner, 1999
\nCall Number: E184 .I6 M118 1999<\/p>\n

Walter Cronkite<\/strong>, journalist and former CBS News<\/em> anchor, dies (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)<\/p>\n

The Challenges of Change<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Walter Cronkite. Public Affairs Press, 1971
\nCall Number: PN4874 .C84 A5 1971<\/p>\n

A Reporter’s Life<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Walter Cronkite. A.A. Knopf, 1996
\nCall Number: PN4874 .C84 A3 1993<\/p>\n

Golda Meir<\/em> <\/strong>(VHS)
\nHosted by Walter Cronkite. CBS News Report, 1978
\nCall Number: DS126.6.M42 G64 1978 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Turning Points in the Debate on Abortion and Birth Control: Abortion and the Law<\/em> (DVD)<\/strong>
\nReported by Walter Cronkite. CBS Reports, 1965
\nCall Number: HQ767.5.U5 T8722 2003 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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