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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 — 10,790 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,935 ratings — published 1974
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,837 ratings — published 1994
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,365 ratings — published 1979
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,702 ratings — published 2005
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,669 ratings — published 1994
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,010 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 — 2,812 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 — 4,021 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 — 7,006 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 — 12,282 ratings — published 2018
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.10 — 553 ratings — published 1962
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,185 ratings — published 2001
Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,210 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 4.39 — 272 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 — 1,669 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 — 22,206 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 4.21 — 3,069 ratings — published 2018
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.03 — 673 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 — 1,747 ratings — published 2015
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,024 ratings — published 1989
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,234 ratings — published 1994
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.01 — 820 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 — 2,935 ratings — published 2009
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.26 — 585 ratings — published 2001
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.30 — 673 ratings — published 2008
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,618,807 ratings — published 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,711 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 — 23,282 ratings — published 2017
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,981 ratings — published 1972
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,399 ratings — published 2016
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.05 — 693 ratings — published 1994
Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.26 — 442 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 — 60,988 ratings — published 2010
The All-American Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.73 — 166 ratings — published 1977
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,510 ratings — published 1998
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,405 ratings — published 2005
How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.63 — 526 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 — 10,690 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 4.17 — 156 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 4.20 — 878 ratings — published 2021
Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 3.62 — 158 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 — 372 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 4.22 — 834 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 — 2,081 ratings — published 2019
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as spaceflight)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,498 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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“Only since the collapse of the Soviet Union have we learned that the Soviets were in fact developing a moon rocket, known as the N1, in the sixties. All four launch attempts of the N1 ended in explosions. Saturn was the largest rocket in the world, the most complex and powerful ever to fly, and remains so to this day. The fact that it was developed for a peaceful purpose is an exception to every pattern of history, and this is one of the legacies of Apollo.”
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
