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The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,624 ratings — published 1979
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,286 ratings — published 1994
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,961 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 4.31 — 10,531 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,712 ratings — published 1974
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,679 ratings — published 1994
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,651 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 — 6,869 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 — 11,765 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 4.30 — 2,765 ratings — published 1999
The Astronaut Wives Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.35 — 28,486 ratings — published 2013
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,366 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 — 2,892 ratings — published 2009
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,977 ratings — published 1989
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,347 ratings — published 2005
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,624 ratings — published 2005
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 — 9,388 ratings — published 2016
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,167 ratings — published 2001
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.34 — 615,600 ratings — published 2025
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,872 ratings — published 2017
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,784 ratings — published 2013
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,952 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 — 60,308 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 — 192 ratings — published 1998
John Glenn: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,227 ratings — published 2000
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.12 — 445,178 ratings — published 2015
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,143 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 3.86 — 162 ratings — published 2013
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,115 ratings — published 2014
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.10 — 545 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 — 584 ratings — published 2004
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.51 — 18,044 ratings — published 2024
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,024 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 — 1,729 ratings — published 2019
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,885 ratings — published 2018
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 — 5,228 ratings — published 2016
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,169 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 — 123 ratings — published 1999
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.08 — 255 ratings — published 1997
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,644 ratings — published
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,936 ratings — published 2006
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.00 — 436 ratings — published 2012
Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.61 — 223 ratings — published 2000
Return to Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.78 — 347 ratings — published 1973
Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,067 ratings — published 1982
Laika (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,318 ratings — published 2007
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.04 — 686 ratings — published 1994
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 — 486 ratings — published 2004
Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-program)
avg rating 4.35 — 72 ratings — published
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-program)
avg rating 3.92 — 19,266 ratings — published 2021
“Here is one way to conceptualize NASA's heroic era: in 1961, Kennedy gave his "moon speech" to Congress, charging them to put an American on the moon "before the decade is out." In the eight years that unspooled between Kennedy's speech and Neil Armstrong's first historic bootprint, NASA, a newborn government agency, established sites and campuses in Texas, Florida, Alabama, California, Ohio, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, and the District of Columbia; awarded multi-million-dollar contracts and hired four hundred thousand workers; built a fully functioning moon port in a formerly uninhabited swamp; designed and constructed a moonfaring rocket, spacecraft, lunar lander, and space suits; sent astronauts repeatedly into orbit, where they ventured out of their spacecraft on umbilical tethers and practiced rendezvous techniques; sent astronauts to orbit the moon, where they mapped out the best landing sites; all culminating in the final, triumphant moment when they sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to step out of their lunar module and bounce about on the moon, perfectly safe within their space suits. All of this, start to finish, was accomplished in those eight years.”
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
“Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever....It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human life, to explore space with robots. The technology is already well along....the real thrill will be in learning in detail what is out there...It is an especially dangerous delusion if we see emigration into space as a solution to be taken when we have used up this planet....Earth, by the twenty-second century, can be turned, if we so wish, into a permanent paradise for human beings...”
― The social conquest of Earth
― The social conquest of Earth
