21 books
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Space Race Books
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The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,266 ratings — published 1979
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,347 ratings — published 2000
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,835 ratings — published 2016
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,077 ratings — published 1994
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,594 ratings — published 1994
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,633 ratings — published
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,626 ratings — published 1974
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,812 ratings — published 2017
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,304 ratings — published 2018
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,312 ratings — published 2019
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,701 ratings — published 2019
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.53 — 11,552 ratings — published 2018
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,945 ratings — published 1989
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.08 — 254 ratings — published 1997
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,320 ratings — published 2005
Laika (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,304 ratings — published 2007
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,919 ratings — published 1994
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.00 — 571 ratings — published 2007
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,589 ratings — published 2005
The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,797 ratings — published 2019
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.10 — 541 ratings — published 1962
The Astronaut Wives Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.35 — 28,390 ratings — published 2013
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.97 — 59 ratings — published 2004
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.80 — 18,815 ratings — published 2016
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,163 ratings — published 2001
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.22 — 806 ratings — published 2005
T-Minus: The Race to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.73 — 554 ratings — published 2009
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,872 ratings — published 2009
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.04 — 683 ratings — published 1994
The Man Who Ran the Moon: James E. Webb, NASA, and the Secret History of Project Apollo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.79 — 117 ratings — published 2006
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.20 — 826 ratings — published 2021
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,881 ratings — published 1998
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.29 — 655 ratings — published 2008
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,722 ratings — published 2021
Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.61 — 147 ratings — published 2019
Rocket Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,165 ratings — published 2013
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.92 — 18,670 ratings — published 2021
The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.05 — 218 ratings — published 2013
A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,429 ratings — published 2021
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,002 ratings — published 2019
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.40 — 60 ratings — published
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.76 — 143 ratings — published 2002
Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.04 — 160 ratings — published 2018
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,889 ratings — published 2010
Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8, The First Manned Flight To Another World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.95 — 190 ratings — published 1998
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.04 — 499 ratings — published 2019
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.11 — 508 ratings — published 1998
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,811 ratings — published 1972
The Race: The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 4.02 — 122 ratings — published 1999
Amazing Stories of the Space Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-race)
avg rating 3.88 — 233 ratings — published 2016
“Beware, space exploration doesn't turn into space imperialism!”
― Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
― Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms.”
― Hidden Figures
― Hidden Figures












