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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,320 ratings — published 2000
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,024 ratings — published 1994
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,085 ratings — published 2014
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,644 ratings — published 2017
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,804 ratings — published 2017
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,188 ratings — published 2013
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,878 ratings — published 1980
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,588 ratings — published 2023
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 680 ratings — published 2021
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,098 ratings — published 2023
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,597 ratings — published 1974
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 11,496 ratings — published 2018
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,489 ratings — published 2018
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,890 ratings — published 2006
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 664 ratings — published 1997
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 579 ratings — published 2004
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,183 ratings — published 1979
Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,251 ratings — published 2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 202,458 ratings — published 2017
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 16,110 ratings — published 2024
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,323 ratings — published 2021
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,157 ratings — published 2018
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,577 ratings — published 1994
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,153 ratings — published 2016
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,751 ratings — published 1999
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 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,689 ratings — published 2015
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 2 times as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 149 ratings — published 2008
Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 83 ratings — published 2019
Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,339 ratings — published 2014
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,161 ratings — published 2001
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 454 ratings — published 2024
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 317 ratings — published 2024
Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 641 ratings — published
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 818 ratings — published 2021
Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 327 ratings — published
Vacation Guide to the Solar System: Science for the Savvy Space Traveler! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 551 ratings — published 2017
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,753 ratings — published 2004
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,994 ratings — published 2020
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,796 ratings — published 1972
From Apollo to Artemis: Stories From My 50 Years With NASA (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 17 ratings — published
Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (Western Histories)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 2012
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.58 — 453 ratings — published 2023
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,795 ratings — published 2018
Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 244 ratings — published 2015
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 725 ratings — published 2011
Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 167 ratings — published 1997
Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering: (Beginner's Guide)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 37 ratings — published
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,940 ratings — published 1989
The Space Shuttle: A Mission-by-Mission Celebration of NASA's Extraordinary Spaceflight Program (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.58 — 24 ratings — published
The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,120 ratings — published 2021
