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Books about people who not only dream of going into outer space but who also contributed to that dream. Fiction and non-fiction are both okay.
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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Nathalia Holt (Goodreads Author)
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Rocket Science
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Blast Off at Woomera
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
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Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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Robert Kurson (Goodreads Author)
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Rocket Ship Galileo
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Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher Von Braun
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
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Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
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Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
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Homer Hickam (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 23,841 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
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The Stars are Ours (Pax/Astra, #1)
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Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact
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Jennifer Swanson (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
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Mike Massimino (Goodreads Author)
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Space Has No Frontier: The Terrestrial Life and Times of Sir Bernard Lovell
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The Mission
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David W. Brown (Goodreads Author)
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Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
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Jim Ottaviani (Goodreads Author)
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Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin
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Rocket Girl
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
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Meredith Bagby (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book Mars and its Canals, with an Alternative Explanation
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The Right Stuff
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Atlas of the Universe
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The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
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Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight
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Jonathan Fetter-Vorm (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 562 ratings
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How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
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Julian Guthrie (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 924 ratings
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
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Kate Greene (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 664 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race
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Amy Cherrix (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Where's the Moon?: A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream
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Ann McCutchan (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
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Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
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4.17 avg rating — 3,304 ratings
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
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4.10 avg rating — 4,159 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,750 ratings
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
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Amazing Stories of the Space Age
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Rod Pyle (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Exploring Space
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The Science of Superheroes and Space Warriors: Lightsabers, Batmobiles, Kryptonite, and More!
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
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The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era
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Ron Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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