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Spaceflight Books
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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,680 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,812 ratings — published 1974
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,757 ratings — published 1994
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,023 ratings — published 1979
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,665 ratings — published 2005
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,475 ratings — published 1994
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,975 ratings — published 2006
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,785 ratings — published 1999
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,993 ratings — published 1994
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,942 ratings — published 2017
Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.32 — 244 ratings — published 2015
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,038 ratings — published 2018
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.10 — 550 ratings — published 1962
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,179 ratings — published 2001
Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,204 ratings — published 1998
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.40 — 270 ratings — published 2007
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,662 ratings — published
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.50 — 20,438 ratings — published 2024
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,975 ratings — published 2018
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.03 — 672 ratings — published 1997
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 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,730 ratings — published 2015
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,997 ratings — published 1989
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,822 ratings — published 1994
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.02 — 804 ratings — published 2009
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,911 ratings — published 2009
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.26 — 582 ratings — published 2001
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.29 — 666 ratings — published 2008
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,384,722 ratings — published 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,625 ratings — published 2021
The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.28 — 134 ratings — published 2010
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,053 ratings — published 2017
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,936 ratings — published 1972
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.96 — 114,720 ratings — published 2016
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,312,157 ratings — published 2011
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.04 — 688 ratings — published 1994
Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.26 — 432 ratings — published 2004
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,686 ratings — published 2010
The All-American Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.73 — 165 ratings — published 1977
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,357 ratings — published 1998
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,374 ratings — published 2005
How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.64 — 522 ratings — published 2007
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,459 ratings — published 2014
Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.06 — 53 ratings — published 2017
Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.16 — 154 ratings — published 2014
To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.10 — 63 ratings — published 2008
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings – The Forgotten History of Daring Exploration and Human Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.19 — 862 ratings — published 2021
Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.62 — 156 ratings — published 2019
Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.99 — 357 ratings — published
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.23 — 829 ratings — published 2005
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,056 ratings — published 2019
“Kiedyś, gdy trwała zimna wojna, wielkie pieniądze przeznaczano na zbrojenia. Gdy ten okres minął, część tych pieniędzy przeznaczono na programy kosmiczne. Zintensyfikowała się współpraca USA, Rosji i innych krajów. I efekty są. Jeden kraj z całą pewnością nie udźwignie finansowo lotu na Marsa. Potrzebne są decyzje polityczne, za którymi idą pieniądze. Wyścig do prestiżu na zasadzie "my" albo "oni" do niczego nie doprowadzi. To musi być "my" w sensie ogólnym — Ziemianie. Ale takiego poważnego porozumienia wciąż nie ma”
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“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech that launched the Apollo program—dazzled me. We would use rockets not yet designed and alloys not yet conceived, navigation and docking schemes not yet devised, in order to send a man to an unknown world—a world not yet explored, not even in a preliminary way, not even by robots—and we would bring him safely back, and we would do it before the decade was over. This confident pronouncement was made before any American had even achieved Earth orbit.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
