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Dpla: Race to the Moon GraphicDpla: Race to the Moon Graphic
Publisher
Digital Public Library of America
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9th - 10th
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Science
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Graphics & Images
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Lexile Measures
1160L
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Dpla: Race to the Moon

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In 1955, the US and the USSR each announced plans to launch a satellite into orbit. Thus began the race to the moon. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the American space program and its new classes of astronauts achieved breakthroughs in science and space exploration-even sending a man to the Moon.

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the moon

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apollo missions, explorer i, gemini missions, national aeronautics and space administration (nasa), space race, sputnik i, the digital public library of america, ussr

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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