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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,351,449 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,718,542 ratings — published 2021
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,564 ratings — published 1979
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,760 ratings — published 1994
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,870 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.63 — 360 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 — 61,150 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 — 10,869 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,985 ratings — published 1974
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,825 ratings — published 2013
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,048 ratings — published 2017
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,045 ratings — published 1994
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,737 ratings — published 2005
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 23,025 ratings — published 2024
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.48 — 163,246 ratings — published 2023
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 — 12,415 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,374 ratings — published 2017
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,600 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 189,551 ratings — published 2015
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,027 ratings — published 1996
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 60,129 ratings — published 2019
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 138,921 ratings — published 2016
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 188,723 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,031 ratings — published 2006
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,743 ratings — published 2023
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.68 — 353,740 ratings — published 2017
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,312 ratings — published 2015
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,468 ratings — published 1994
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 — 2,819 ratings — published 1999
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 130,482 ratings — published 1970
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,779 ratings — published 2021
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,865 ratings — published 2018
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,220 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,188 ratings — published 2001
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.32 — 938,428 ratings — published 2025
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,801 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 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 893 ratings — published 2021
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 — 5,340 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 4.30 — 1,767 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 341,664 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 — 3,419 ratings — published 2005
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,098 ratings — published 2019
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 397,314 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 — 597 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 — 837 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 — 2,945 ratings — published 2009
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,034 ratings — published 1989
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,771 ratings — published 2023
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,794 ratings — published 2014
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 90,160 ratings — published 1992
“Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
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“If we are to send people, it must be for a very good reason - and with a realistic understanding that almost certainly we will lose lives. Astronauts and Cosmonauts have always understood this. Nevertheless, there has been and will be no shortage of volunteers.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
