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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,253,782 ratings — published 2011
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,139 ratings — published 1979
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,985 ratings — published 1994
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,564 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.65 — 330 ratings — published 2023
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,721 ratings — published 2010
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,294 ratings — published 2000
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 949,215 ratings — published 2021
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,581 ratings — published 1974
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,785 ratings — published 2017
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,117 ratings — published 2013
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,896 ratings — published 1994
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,568 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 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 11,464 ratings — published 2018
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 15,825 ratings — published 2024
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,612 ratings — published 2017
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.53 — 118,812 ratings — published 2023
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 116,650 ratings — published 2016
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 54,194 ratings — published 2019
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,246 ratings — published 2015
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 164,372 ratings — published 2015
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.94 — 127,658 ratings — published 1970
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 180,902 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,884 ratings — published 2006
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,961 ratings — published 1996
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,486 ratings — published 2018
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 38,928 ratings — published 1994
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,743 ratings — published 1999
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 332,307 ratings — published 1968
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,658 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,161 ratings — published 2001
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,582 ratings — published 2016
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,641 ratings — published 2023
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 816 ratings — published 2021
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.69 — 313,828 ratings — published 2017
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,308 ratings — published 2005
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,937 ratings — published 1989
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,310 ratings — published 2021
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,995 ratings — published 2019
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 347,093 ratings — published 2017
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,143 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 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,687 ratings — published 2015
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 578 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 4.22 — 803 ratings — published 2005
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 37,250 ratings — published 2018
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 178,352 ratings — published 2014
Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,188 ratings — published 1998
2010: Odyssey Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,242 ratings — published 1982
Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 332 ratings — published 2005
Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.83 — 691 ratings — published 2007
“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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“The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.”
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