You Will Go to the Moon (book)
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| You Will Go to the Moon | |
 1959 edition cover |
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| Author | Mae and Ira Freeman |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House Childrens Books |
| Publication date | 1959 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | 978-0394800073 |
You Will Go To The Moon is a work of children's literature written by Mae and Ira Freeman and illustrated by Robert Patterson, published in 1959, ten years before the first moon landing. A second edition was published in 1971, with new illustrations reflecting NASA's Project Apollo.
The book is a children's story in the "Beginners Books" series, written using a restricted vocabulary of simple words for a readership age of six. The illustrations show a lunar mission concept based on the Von Braun and Ley space exploration concepts of 1952 (see Man Will Conquer Space Soon!), featuring winged three-stage rockets ferrying the passengers to a rotating-wheel space station, serving as a transfer station to the spider-like lunar surface shuttle.
The writing was unusual in that it was written in the second-person future tense.
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