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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,894,292 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,385,849 ratings — published 2011
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,283 ratings — published 1979
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,951 ratings — published 1994
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,976 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.63 — 372 ratings — published 2023
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,540 ratings — published 2010
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,031 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,123 ratings — published 1974
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 64,305 ratings — published 2013
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,111 ratings — published 2017
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,082 ratings — published 1994
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 24,548 ratings — published 2024
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,819 ratings — published 2005
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,675 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,597 ratings — published 2017
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.47 — 172,503 ratings — published 2023
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 62,056 ratings — published 2019
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,627 ratings — published 2018
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,215 ratings — published 2023
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 198,458 ratings — published 2015
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,039 ratings — published 1996
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 146,924 ratings — published 2016
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,961 ratings — published 1994
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 191,154 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,069 ratings — published 2006
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,060,058 ratings — published 2025
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.67 — 367,963 ratings — published 2017
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,320 ratings — published 2015
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,843 ratings — published 1999
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 131,423 ratings — published 1970
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,865 ratings — published 2016
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings – The Forgotten History of Daring Exploration and Human Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 914 ratings — published 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,956 ratings — published 2021
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 39,390 ratings — published 2018
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,075 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,198 ratings — published 2001
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,375 ratings — published 2016
Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,800 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 344,676 ratings — published 1968
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,446 ratings — published 2005
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,625 ratings — published 2023
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,132 ratings — published 2019
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 412,869 ratings — published 2017
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 602 ratings — published 2004
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 847 ratings — published 2005
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,964 ratings — published 2009
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,067 ratings — published 1989
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,953 ratings — published 2021
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,103 ratings — published 2018
“NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.”
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“For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity’s progress toward justice and peace.”
― The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays
― The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays
