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Space Exploration Books
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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,307,862 ratings — published 2011
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,975 ratings — published 1979
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,316,621 ratings — published 2021
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,745 ratings — published 1994
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,451 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.66 — 349 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 — 60,639 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 4.31 — 10,665 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,792 ratings — published 1974
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,932 ratings — published 2017
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,170 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 — 3,986 ratings — published 1994
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,661 ratings — published 2005
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 20,155 ratings — published 2024
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 — 12,008 ratings — published 2018
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.49 — 150,603 ratings — published 2023
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,024 ratings — published 2017
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 57,974 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 — 2,548 ratings — published 2018
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 129,103 ratings — published 2016
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 180,012 ratings — published 2015
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 185,890 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,974 ratings — published 2006
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,007 ratings — published 1996
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 4.00 — 8,104 ratings — published 2023
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,285 ratings — published 2015
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 129,525 ratings — published 1970
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.68 — 334,095 ratings — published 2017
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,777 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 — 2,784 ratings — published 1999
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 160,128 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,177 ratings — published 2001
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 114,569 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 — 861 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 — 6,608 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 — 1,729 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 338,304 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 — 3,373 ratings — published 2005
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,995 ratings — published 1989
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 762,917 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 — 2,052 ratings — published 2019
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,244 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 379,722 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 — 5,273 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 4.29 — 590 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 — 826 ratings — published 2005
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,290 ratings — published 2023
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.08 — 209,571 ratings — published 2017
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 188,366 ratings — published 2014
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,219 ratings — published 1992
“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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“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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