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Space Exploration Books
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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,329,240 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,562,462 ratings — published 2021
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,234 ratings — published 1979
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,810 ratings — published 1994
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,615 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.65 — 355 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 — 60,892 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 — 10,756 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,894 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 — 6,986 ratings — published 2017
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,523 ratings — published 2013
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,011 ratings — published 1994
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,690 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 — 21,708 ratings — published 2024
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.48 — 156,992 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 — 12,203 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,209 ratings — published 2017
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,017 ratings — published 1996
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 59,071 ratings — published 2019
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,577 ratings — published 2018
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.25 — 134,085 ratings — published 2016
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 184,534 ratings — published 2015
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 187,221 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,000 ratings — published 2006
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.68 — 343,652 ratings — published 2017
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,294 ratings — published 2015
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 129,980 ratings — published 1970
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,420 ratings — published 2023
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,538 ratings — published 2018
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,128 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 4.30 — 2,803 ratings — published 1999
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,174 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,184 ratings — published 2001
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,183 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 — 876 ratings — published 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,694 ratings — published 2021
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 — 1,743 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 339,957 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 — 3,397 ratings — published 2005
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.32 — 844,928 ratings — published 2025
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,073 ratings — published 2019
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 387,836 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 — 5,312 ratings — published 2016
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 — 595 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 — 833 ratings — published 2005
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,016 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 — 7,525 ratings — published 2023
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.08 — 211,635 ratings — published 2017
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,816 ratings — published 2014
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,668 ratings — published 1992
“Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.”
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“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Solaris
― Solaris
