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The Right Stuff
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4.23 avg rating — 55,317 ratings
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
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4.53 avg rating — 5,176 ratings
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A Man on the Moon
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4.49 avg rating — 7,612 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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4.53 avg rating — 11,592 ratings
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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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4.30 avg rating — 10,371 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 59,947 ratings
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
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4.21 avg rating — 22,718 ratings
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
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4.49 avg rating — 6,643 ratings
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
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4.42 avg rating — 6,821 ratings
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Gus Grissom: The Lost Astronaut (INDIANA BIOGRAPHY SERIES)
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3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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4.13 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
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Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle
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4.04 avg rating — 684 ratings
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
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4.29 avg rating — 2,757 ratings
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
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4.39 avg rating — 10,117 ratings
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Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey (Springer Praxis Books)
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4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation
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3.79 avg rating — 150 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,345 ratings
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Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles
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4.23 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
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4.27 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
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4.47 avg rating — 6,377 ratings
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Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
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3.80 avg rating — 431 ratings
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
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4.58 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
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4.45 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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4.36 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
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Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity
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3.93 avg rating — 184 ratings
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"Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
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3.88 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
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3.83 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home
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3.84 avg rating — 693 ratings
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Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
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4.03 avg rating — 837 ratings
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
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4.33 avg rating — 6,757 ratings
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A Much Unsung Hero, the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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4.51 avg rating — 16,778 ratings
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The Birth of NASA: The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers (Springer Praxis Books)
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook (Springer Praxis Books)
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4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Space Rescue: Ensuring the Safety of Manned Spacecraft (Springer Praxis Books)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong
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3.92 avg rating — 6,588 ratings
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
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4.22 avg rating — 2,822 ratings
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Getting Off the Planet: Training Astronauts (Apogee Books Space Series)
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Around the World in 84 Days: The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr (Apogee Books Space Series)
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Endurance
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4.21 avg rating — 22,718 ratings
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But for the Grace of God: An Autobiography of an Aviator and Astronaut
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3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
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4.19 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom
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4.16 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight
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4.27 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
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4.30 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
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4.04 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Smoke Jumper, Moon Pilot: The Remarkable Life of Apollo 14 Astronaut Stuart Roosa
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2.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Inventing the American Astronaut (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
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4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992
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4.31 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Race
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4.02 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Infinite Worlds: The People and Places of Space Exploration
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4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
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3.91 avg rating — 276 ratings
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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
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4.17 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Spies and Shuttles: NASA's Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA
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3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
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4.10 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
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Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
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4.29 avg rating — 658 ratings
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
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4.23 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle (Springer Praxis Books)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Story: The Way of Water
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
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4.09 avg rating — 441 ratings
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No Downlink: A Dramatic Narrative About the Challenger Accident and Our Time
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Unbroken Chain: Apogee Books Space Series 20
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4.38 avg rating — 79 ratings
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We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race
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3.92 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Men from Earth
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4.05 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Return to Earth
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The Story of Apollo 8
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3.95 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space
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4.05 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
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4.28 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir
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3.91 avg rating — 390 ratings
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For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut
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3.70 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown
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3.62 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Schirra's Space (Bluejacket Books)
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3.79 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard – America's First Spaceman
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4.16 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Apollo: The Race To The Moon
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4.52 avg rating — 1,954 ratings
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The All-American Boys
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3.75 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin
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4.07 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story
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4.34 avg rating — 150 ratings
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This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age
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4.11 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
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4.03 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond
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4.09 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
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4.13 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Flight: My Life in Mission Control
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4.27 avg rating — 1,164 ratings
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John Glenn: A Memoir
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4.08 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
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3.92 avg rating — 6,588 ratings
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Riding Rockets
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4.20 avg rating — 4,915 ratings
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
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4.16 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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Apollo to the Moon: A History in 50 Objects
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4.37 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Moon Launch! (The NASA History Series)
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4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Final Journey of the Saturn V
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The Final Mission: Preserving NASA's Apollo Sites
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3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
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4.08 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Mission Control: Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight
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3.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program
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3.93 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Rocket Ranch: The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center (Springer Praxis Books)
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4.48 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Saturn V F-1 Engine: Powering Apollo into History (Springer Praxis Books)
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3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
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4.03 avg rating — 777 ratings
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Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir
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3.96 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program (New Series in NASA History)
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3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
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3.78 avg rating — 199 ratings
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