{"id":2724,"date":"2009-07-20T07:05:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2012-04-23T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T01:10:22","slug":"40th-anniversary-of-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2724","title":{"rendered":"Moon landing’s 40th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Apollo 11<\/a> was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong<\/a> and Buzz Aldrin<\/a> on July 20, 1969.”<\/strong> <\/span>— NASA’s “Apollo 40th Anniversary<\/a>” web pages (Didn’t see it? You can watch NASA’s videos<\/a> of the 1969 event).<\/p>\n

\"MoonAndersen Library has many related materials for children and adults. Search the library catalog<\/a> for children’s materials such as the pop-up book Moon landing<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor Curriculum Collection, Oversize Juvenile Nonfiction, 629.45 Pla) and Buzz Aldrin’s autobiography Reaching for the moon<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor Curriculum Collection, Oversize Easy Book, E Ald). \"CarryingAdults may be interested in items such as the 29-minute NASA video The Eagle has landed<\/em> (2nd-floor Browsing VHS, TL799 .M6 E2x), Michael Collins<\/a>‘ autobiography Carrying the fire: An astronaut\u2019s journeys<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, TL789.85 .C64 A33 1974), or The moonlandings: An eyewitness account<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, TL789.8.U6 A5844 2003).<\/p>\n

\"NewThere also are many articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers about Apollo 11, and spaceflight in general. For example, read articles from the New York Times<\/em> using the ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times<\/a> database (pictured at right is part of the front page from July 21, 1969).<\/p>\n

Please ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding additional materials.<\/p>\n

\"Government<\/p>\n

The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. Come check out your government at the University Library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969.” — NASA’s “Apollo 40th Anniversary” web pages … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[875,2083,141,2085,2084,119,335,783,2082,2080,334,2081],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-infogov","tag-anniversaries","tag-apollo","tag-articles","tag-astronauts","tag-autobiographies","tag-databases","tag-federal-government","tag-government-info","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-newspapers","tag-spaceflight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}