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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)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,132 ratings — published 2018
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,033 ratings — published 2006
Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.96 — 251 ratings — published 2006
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.32 — 967,791 ratings — published 2025
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.50 — 23,353 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 3.77 — 167 ratings — published
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.01 — 830 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 3.86 — 166 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 — 1,774 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 — 158 ratings — published 2014
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,915 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 4.36 — 75 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 4.33 — 124 ratings — published
The Wild One (Roswell High, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,838 ratings — published 1999
Starsight (Skyward, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,484 ratings — published 2019
Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.20 — 26,708 ratings — published 2021
Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,516 ratings — published 2020
Skyward (Skyward, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.46 — 172,453 ratings — published 2018
Waste of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,291 ratings — published 2017
Unearthed (Unearthed, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,132 ratings — published 2017
Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.44 — 58,852 ratings — published 2018
Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.43 — 82,644 ratings — published 2016
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.24 — 163,845 ratings — published 2015
Starglass (Starglass, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,408 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 — 146 ratings — published 2020
We Dream of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,125 ratings — published 2020
ඉර හඳ තරු මැද (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 3.95 — 555 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 — 2 ratings — 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 4.48 — 31 ratings — published 2002
The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.32 — 102 ratings — published 1982
I Touch the Future: The Story of Christa McAuliffe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-shuttle)
avg rating 4.00 — 49 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 — 462 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 — 5,348 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 — 586 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 3.84 — 19 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 3.83 — 708 ratings — published 2007
“The shuttle would announce its arrival with the trademark double sonic boom-- Boom, BOOM!!-- and shortly thereafter you could see the bright silvery craft dropping from the sky. Space enthusiasm in the state has dimmed somewhat sine the final return of the Space Shuttle on July 21, 2011, but even now, there are traffic jams on the access roads whenever a launch is scheduled. If you are within five miles of the launch site, the sky lights up, the ground rumbles, the crowds cheer, and waves of unrepentant patriotism surge through your body.”
― A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
― A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
“Together the five orbiters Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour have flown a total of 133 successful missions, an unequaled accomplishment of engineering, management, and political savvy. But it's the two disasters that people remember, that most shape the shuttle's story. The lovely dream of spaceflight I grew up with is marred by the images of Challenger and Columbia breaking apart in the sky, the lost astronauts smiling on hopefully in their portraits, oblivious. Some people took the disasters to mean the entire space program had been a lie, that the dream itself was tainted with our fallibility. But even as a child, I knew it was more complex than that. If we want to see people take risks, we have to be prepared to sometimes see them fail. The story of American spaceflight is a story with many endings, a story of how we have weighed our achievements against our failures.”
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
