Aldrin, Buzz, and Marianne Dyson. To the Moon and Back: My Apollo 11 Adventure. Washington, DC: National Geographic Children’s Books, 2018.
Chaikin, Andrew, Victoria Kohl, and Alan Bean. Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon. New York: Viking, 2009.
Dyson, Marianne J. Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2003.
Hasday, Judy L. The Apollo 13 Mission. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2001.
Holden, Henry M. Danger in Space: Surviving the Apollo 13 Disaster. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2013.
Jones, Tom. Ask the Astronaut: A Galaxy of Astonishing Answers to Your Questions on Spaceflight. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2016.
Morgan, Ben, ed. Space! The Universe as You’ve Never Seen It Before. New York: DK, 2015.
Olson, Tod. Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13. New York: Scholastic, 2017.
O’Shaughnessy, Tam. Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America’s Pioneering Woman in Space. New York: Roaring Brook, 2015.
Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner. Apollo 13: How Three Brave Astronauts Survived a Space Disaster. New York: Random House, 2015.
NASA: Apollo 13 Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo-13
Learn more about the Apollo 13 crew on NASA’s official mission website.
NASA Astronaut Candidate Program
https://astronauts.nasa.gov/content/broch00.htm
Find out the qualifications and requirements for becoming an astronaut.
NASA Kids’ Club
https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
Test your rover-driving skills, find out who is on the space station, and more.
NASA Space Educators’ Handbook
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/seh.html
Search for and reference NASA resources using this online encyclopedia.
NASA Space Place
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/classroom-activities/en/
Use this site’s activities to learn more about concepts related to Earth and space.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Apollo Program
https://airandspace.si.edu/topics/apollo-program
Read recent articles about the equipment, technology, and engineers that made the Apollo missions possible.
https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo -program/
Read detailed summaries of each Apollo mission.