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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,312 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,593 ratings — published 1974
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,573 ratings — published 1994
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,166 ratings — published 1979
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,575 ratings — published 2005
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,889 ratings — published 2006
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,015 ratings — published 1994
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,750 ratings — published 1999
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,905 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 — 6,802 ratings — published 2017
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,161 ratings — published 2001
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 4.31 — 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 — 11,486 ratings — published 2018
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.03 — 663 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 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,689 ratings — published 2015
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,940 ratings — published 1989
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.10 — 539 ratings — published 1962
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.27 — 571 ratings — published 2001
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 — 262 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 4.11 — 1,629 ratings — published
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.29 — 653 ratings — published 2008
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.51 — 16,037 ratings — published 2024
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,255,886 ratings — published 2011
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.04 — 680 ratings — published 1994
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.34 — 38,975 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 — 769 ratings — published 2009
Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,188 ratings — published 1998
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,867 ratings — published 2009
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,322 ratings — published 2021
The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.28 — 130 ratings — published 2010
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,792 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,633 ratings — published 2017
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,794 ratings — published 1972
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,664 ratings — published 2016
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.08 — 254 ratings — published 1997
Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.23 — 167 ratings — published 1997
Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.25 — 419 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 — 59,763 ratings — published 2010
The All-American Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.77 — 162 ratings — published 1977
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,819 ratings — published 1998
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,311 ratings — published 2005
How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.64 — 516 ratings — published 2007
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,534 ratings — published 2014
Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.89 — 185 ratings — published
Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.04 — 52 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 — 153 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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.20 — 816 ratings — published 2021
Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.60 — 146 ratings — published 2019
Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.01 — 320 ratings — published
“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
“One consequence of this train of argument is that, even if civilizations commonly arise on planets throughout the Galaxy, few of them will be both long-lived and nontechnological. Since hazards from asteroids and comets must apply to inhabited planets all over the Galaxy, if there are such, intelligent beings everywhere will have to unify their home worlds politically, leave their planets, and move small nearby worlds around. Their eventual choice, as ours, is spaceflight or extinction.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
