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Space Shuttle Books
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,866 ratings — published 2018
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,936 ratings — published 2006
Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.96 — 248 ratings — published 2006
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.51 — 17,695 ratings — published 2024
The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.78 — 157 ratings — published
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.03 — 781 ratings — published 2009
Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.85 — 163 ratings — published 2013
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-shuttle)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,707 ratings — published 2015
Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.17 — 154 ratings — published 2014
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,642 ratings — published 2013
Space Shuttle Columbia: Her Missions and Crews (Springer Praxis Books)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2005
Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.35 — 71 ratings — published
![[(Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System - 3rd Edition)] [Author: Dennis R Jenkins] published on (April, 2001)](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1697967377l/122917659._SX50_.jpg)
[(Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System - 3rd Edition)] [Author: Dennis R Jenkins] published on (April, 2001)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Computers Take Flight: A History of NASA's Pioneering Digital Fly-By-Wire Project - Apollo and Shuttle Computers, Airplanes, Software and Reliability (NASA SP-2000-4224)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2011
Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA's Seamstresses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.29 — 112 ratings — published
The Wild One (Roswell High, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,820 ratings — published 1999
Starsight (Skyward, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.34 — 107,912 ratings — published 2019
Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.20 — 25,615 ratings — published 2021
Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,376 ratings — published 2020
Skyward (Skyward, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.46 — 165,420 ratings — published 2018
Waste of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,277 ratings — published 2017
Unearthed (Unearthed, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,964 ratings — published 2017
Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.44 — 57,629 ratings — published 2018
Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.43 — 81,201 ratings — published 2016
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.24 — 161,028 ratings — published 2015
Starglass (Starglass, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,407 ratings — published 2013
Return to Flight: Inside NASA's Space Shuttle Missions in the Wake of the Columbia Disaster (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 2015
Picturing the Space Shuttle : The Early Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.78 — 9 ratings — published
NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection : Redefining the Right Stuff Series: Space Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published
The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.55 — 138 ratings — published 2020
We Dream of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,769 ratings — published 2020
ඉර හඳ තරු මැද (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.96 — 542 ratings — published
Space Shuttle STS Flights 1–5: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series, 16)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published 2001
Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System--The First 100 Missions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.53 — 36 ratings — published 1996
The Dream Is Alive: The Flight of Discovery Aboard the Space Shuttle (Imax/Smithsonian Wide World Series)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1990
Wings In Orbit: Scientific And Engineering Legacies Of The Space Shuttle, 1971-2010 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2011
Waystation to the Stars: The Story of Mir, Michael and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.23 — 13 ratings — published 1999
Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years -- The Astronauts' Experiences in Their Own Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.47 — 30 ratings — published 2002
The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.31 — 97 ratings — published 1982
I Touch the Future: The Story of Christa McAuliffe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.02 — 48 ratings — published 1986
Space Shuttle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.08 — 445 ratings — published 1996
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,211 ratings — published 2016
Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.79 — 581 ratings — published 2015
Silver Linings: Triumph of the Challenger 7. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published 1995
Space Shuttle: Developing an Icon 1972-2013 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published
The Space Shuttle Endeavour, California (Images of Modern America)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2014
Lights of Mankind: The Earth at Night As Seen from Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.71 — 17 ratings — published 2011
Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.84 — 695 ratings — published 2007
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,828 ratings — published 2017
“Backyard ducks that supposedly “take care of themselves” require more maintenance than the space shuttle.”
― Enslaved by Ducks
― Enslaved by Ducks
“Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Russia, Hermann Olberth in Germany, and Robert Goddard in the United States all came up with an eerily similar concept for using liquid fuel to power rockets for human spaceflight. I've seen this pointed out as an odd coincidence, one of those moments when an idea inexplicably emerges in multiple places at once. But when I read through each of these three men's biographies I discovered why they all had the same idea: all three of them were obsessed with Jules Verne's 1865 novel "De la terre a la lune (From the Earth to the Moon)." The novel details the strange adventures of three space explorers who travel to the moon together. What sets Verne's book apart from the other speculative fiction of the time was his careful attention to the physics involved in space travel -- his characters take pains to explain to each other exactly how and why each concept would work. All three real-life scientists -- the Russian, the German, and the American -- were following what they had learned from a French science fiction writer.”
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
