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The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,318 ratings — published 1979
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,117 ratings — published 1994
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,928 ratings — published 1994
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,373 ratings — published 2000
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,613 ratings — published 1994
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,644 ratings — published 1974
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,977 ratings — published 2016
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,822 ratings — published 2017
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.53 — 11,596 ratings — published 2018
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,757 ratings — published 1999
The Astronaut Wives Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.35 — 28,413 ratings — published 2013
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,955 ratings — published 1989
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,325 ratings — published 2019
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,874 ratings — published 2009
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,590 ratings — published 2005
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,330 ratings — published 2005
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,164 ratings — published 2001
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,339 ratings — published 2016
John Glenn: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,216 ratings — published 2000
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.35 — 470,282 ratings — published 2025
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,720 ratings — published 2017
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,347 ratings — published 2013
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,942 ratings — published 2009
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,948 ratings — published 2010
Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8, The First Manned Flight To Another World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.95 — 190 ratings — published 1998
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.13 — 441,267 ratings — published 2015
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,823 ratings — published 2018
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,938 ratings — published 1998
Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.85 — 163 ratings — published 2013
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,098 ratings — published 2014
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.08 — 254 ratings — published 1997
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,915 ratings — published 2006
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.10 — 541 ratings — published 1962
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.28 — 580 ratings — published 2004
Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,008 ratings — published 1982
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.04 — 684 ratings — published 1994
Moon Rush: The New Space Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.62 — 199 ratings — published
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,005 ratings — published 2019
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,708 ratings — published 2019
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,176 ratings — published 2016
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,168 ratings — published 2014
The Race: The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.02 — 122 ratings — published 1999
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,637 ratings — published
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.99 — 433 ratings — published 2012
Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.62 — 221 ratings — published 2000
Return to Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.77 — 343 ratings — published 1973
The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.98 — 978 ratings — published 2003
Laika (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,303 ratings — published 2007
Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard – America's First Spaceman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.16 — 482 ratings — published 2004
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.51 — 16,789 ratings — published 2024
“With today's work, I'm about one-fourth of the way through the whole cut. At least, one-fourth of the way through the drilling. Then I'll have 759 little chunks to chisel out. And I'm not sure how well carbon composite is going to take that. But NASA'll do it a thousand times back on Earth and tell me the best way to get it done.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“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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