Moon Landing by Nick Arnold, Scholastic, £2.99, ISBN
0439999529
IT’S A sobering thought: in 2002, it will be 30 years since a human being
last set foot on the Moon. An entire generation knows about Moon landings only
as archival events. For their children, humans journeying to another world must
seem the stuff of myths.
Although aimed at pre-teens, Nick Arnold’s Moon Landing may be just
what’s needed to bring those heady days to life for both these post-Apollo
generations. In a crisp 64 pages, Arnold delivers the whole shebang: the cold
war underpinnings of the space race, the rickety…
