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A Man on the Moon
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4.49 avg rating — 7,693 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,909 ratings
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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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4.31 avg rating — 10,572 ratings
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
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4.30 avg rating — 2,769 ratings
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
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4.21 avg rating — 22,915 ratings
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The Right Stuff
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4.23 avg rating — 55,733 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,438 ratings
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
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4.40 avg rating — 10,343 ratings
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Space
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4.01 avg rating — 7,081 ratings
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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4.13 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
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The Right Stuff
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4.23 avg rating — 55,733 ratings
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Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
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4.12 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
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Riding Rockets
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4.20 avg rating — 4,950 ratings
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Flight: My Life in Mission Control
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4.27 avg rating — 1,170 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 — 11,850 ratings
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The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
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3.98 avg rating — 982 ratings
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
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4.10 avg rating — 547 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 — 3,969 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 — 1,148 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.34 avg rating — 39,576 ratings
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
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4.33 avg rating — 7,115 ratings
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
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4.36 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
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4.17 avg rating — 3,389 ratings
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
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4.49 avg rating — 6,738 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 — 6,886 ratings
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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3.87 avg rating — 9,400 ratings
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Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
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3.79 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Schirra's Space (Bluejacket Books)
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3.79 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown
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3.60 avg rating — 224 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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Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
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4.27 avg rating — 576 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 — 486 ratings
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John Glenn: A Memoir
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4.08 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
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3.57 avg rating — 1,952 ratings
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Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle
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4.04 avg rating — 687 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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Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
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4.13 avg rating — 731 ratings
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Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond
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4.08 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin
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4.07 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
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3.92 avg rating — 6,636 ratings
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Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
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4.03 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
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4.13 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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Spies and Shuttles: NASA's Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA
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3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Echoes of Apollo
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4.18 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
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4.49 avg rating — 6,738 ratings
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Amazing Stories of the Space Age
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3.88 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth
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3.53 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
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3.94 avg rating — 82 ratings
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You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station
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4.29 avg rating — 2,232 ratings
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Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 24,195 ratings
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Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
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3.89 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
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4.12 avg rating — 2,901 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 — 5,251 ratings
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
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3.72 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
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4.57 avg rating — 1,801 ratings
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Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
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4.29 avg rating — 663 ratings
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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
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4.17 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
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Exploring Space
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3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Space: The Human Story
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4.33 avg rating — 966 ratings
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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 — 18,670 ratings
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Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History
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4.82 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Failure is not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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4.31 avg rating — 10,572 ratings
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How to Astronaut: Everything You Need to Know Before Leaving Earth
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4.11 avg rating — 851 ratings
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Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
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4.27 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Reflections from Earth Orbit (Apogee Books Space Series)
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era
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4.26 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Apollo EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime: Apogee Books Space Series 31
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3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
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4.05 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Explore the Cosmos Like Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Space Science Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 41 ratings
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We Have Liftoff: Envisioning Your Place in the Orbital Age
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3.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Countdown: An Autobiography
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3.73 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Lost Spacecraft: The Search for Liberty Bell 7: Apogee Books Space Series 28
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3.80 avg rating — 10 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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4.31 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
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The Science of Superheroes and Space Warriors: Lightsabers, Batmobiles, Kryptonite, and More!
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3.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings – The Forgotten History of Daring Exploration and Human Genius
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4.20 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race: Apogee Books Space Series 19
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
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4.23 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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Way Station to Space: A History of the John C. Stennis Center
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
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3.79 avg rating — 743 ratings
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Wallops Station and the Creation of an American Space Program
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
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4.10 avg rating — 4,214 ratings
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The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (Volume 8) (Centennial of Flight Series)
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4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Under an Ionized Sky: From Chemtrails to Space Fence Lockdown
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4.26 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Birth of NASA:The Diary of T. Keith Glennan
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact
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4.30 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
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4.23 avg rating — 820 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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3.96 avg rating — 113,882 ratings
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Moon Bound: Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts (Springer Praxis Books)
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras
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4.43 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts (Springer Praxis Books)
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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3.96 avg rating — 113,882 ratings
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NASA's Scientist-Astronauts (Springer Praxis Books)
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
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4.13 avg rating — 938 ratings
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The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin
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4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
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4.39 avg rating — 264 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 — 5,251 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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Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
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4.05 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
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The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Praxis Books)
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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