You Will Go to the Moon [Hardcover]

Mae B. Freeman (Author), M. Ira (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1971

An easy-to-read introduction to space flight tracing a manned rocket trip to a space station and the moon.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Random House Childrens Books; Revised edition (June 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394800079
• ISBN-13: 978-0394800073
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,814,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book with two different printings, July 29, 2003

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John Resanovich (Spring Valley, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Will Go to the Moon (Hardcover)

I agree with all of the reviews posted here I was learning to read in the late sixtes/early seventies and I remember this book very well. I must have read it a few hundred times.
Well, imagine my surprise last week when my dad found it in the attic and asked if I wanted it for my 4 year old. As I dug into the pile of books he found I found not only my copy, but my sisters edition from 10 years earlier. The c-right on my sisters was dated 1959 mine was 1971. The art and the text were redone. The same authors but two different illustrators. By 1971 we had a functioning moon program and we were a more "politically correct" society.
The art in the 59 edition is more in the vein of 50's fantasy. One of the big draws in the 59 edition is that you will be able to see what's going on by watching a Television. The 71 edition is clearly based on Apollo. In the 59 edition there are no female "Spacemen", by 71 one there are female astronauts in the book.
Seeing the two side by side is a great history lesson. and a real trip down memory lane for me.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars But Alas, I Still Can't Get to the Moon!, November 28, 2001

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Carey M. McCleskey (Titusville, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Will Go to the Moon (Hardcover)

This is an "impressionable" book of colossal proportions. The subject matter absolutely fascinated, inspired, challenged, and motivated a generation of American "rocket scientists" that would eventually come to operate the Space Shuttle and the Space Station. I am one of those. Born in 1960, I would end up participating in a work-study program with NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, earn an Aerospace Engineering degree, and operate the Space Shuttle--on the ground, that is! Of course, I am sure it stimulated many others that chose different fields of endeavor.

As a young "Cat In The Hat" reader I was enormously fascinated with this book. Yes, this book was distributed by mail to many young readers, right along with "Green Eggs and Ham." What a time in history to begin learning. Imagine training to read with the imagination of Dr. Suess, to experience the creativity of Walt Disney, and be exposed to a vision of space travel by Wernher von Braun and his followers--all while the Mercury, Gemini and Saturn/Apollo programs hit the headlines and the TV screens!

With over forty years having passed, I suggest reading it again-or for the first time. On the one hand, you will find that much is fulfilled. Alas, on the other hand, the fact that the title is addressed to "YOU" should cause us all to reflect on the promises one generation makes to another...and inspire us all to action once again. This time to enable all those who would like to Go To The Moon!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational!!!!, November 22, 1998

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Archibald Baal "archibael" (Chandler, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Will Go to the Moon (Hardcover)

I'm 25 years old, and have a library of thousands of books, and when I stop to think about it, this book was the most influential.

The book opens a child's mind to the dream of space, and assumes (quite casually) that humanity is headed there, and then tells you exactly what it'll be like. I think back on the book, and it covered fairly advanced topics (multi-stage rockets, centrifugal "force" space stations, etc.) in language and concepts a kindergarten mind can comprehend.

It's apparently out of print (more's the pity), but it's just as applicable scientifically today as it was when published (mostly because our space program hasn't moved forward at the optimistic pace predicted in the early 70s, and has bogged itself down in political nonsense and governmental bureaucracy... but I digress).

If you don't think kids should dream of their trip into space, where they spend time at a half-way station before landing on the moon, then skip this book and buy some of the latest Barney pap.

But if you want your kids to look up at the stars with, not only awe, but *ownership* in their eyes, sift through as many piles of dusty tomes in the nearest used bookstore and *find* this book.

Your kids will thank you. Perhaps from Mars.