Space Program


The Right Stuff
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
A Man on the Moon
Hidden Figures
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
The Astronaut Wives Club
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Apollo: The Race To The Moon
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
Andy Weir
With today's work, I'm about one-fourth of the way through the whole cut. At least, one-fourth of the way through the drilling. Then I'll have 759 little chunks to chisel out. And I'm not sure how well carbon composite is going to take that. But NASA'll do it a thousand times back on Earth and tell me the best way to get it done. ...more
Andy Weir, The Martian

George Alec Effinger
Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the ...more
George Alec Effinger, Live! from Planet Earth

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