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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,358,627 ratings — published 2011
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,898 ratings — published 2000
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.32 — 966,366 ratings — published 2025
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,685 ratings — published 1979
Deception Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.77 — 708,333 ratings — published 2001
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,802 ratings — published 1994
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,004 ratings — published 1974
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,890 ratings — published 1994
The Astronaut Wives Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.36 — 28,877 ratings — published 2013
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,004 ratings — published 2016
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,052 ratings — published 1994
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,904 ratings — published 2013
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.50 — 23,342 ratings — published 2024
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,062 ratings — published 2017
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,754 ratings — published 2005
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,475 ratings — published 2018
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,033 ratings — published 2006
Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.90 — 679,124 ratings — published 2022
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,825 ratings — published 1999
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,128 ratings — published 2018
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,946 ratings — published 2009
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,191 ratings — published 2001
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,424 ratings — published 2005
John Glenn: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,260 ratings — published 2000
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 8 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,686 ratings — published 1998
Voyage (NASA Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,282 ratings — published 1996
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,237 ratings — published 2010
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,761,159 ratings — published 2021
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,548 ratings — published 2021
Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.07 — 338 ratings — published 2005
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,404 ratings — published 2017
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,545 ratings — published 2016
Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.61 — 229 ratings — published 2000
Hidden Figures: An Inspiring Picture Book True Story About Women Who Changed Space History, for Children (Ages 6–10)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,404 ratings — published 2018
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,924 ratings — published 2023
Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.56 — 169,638 ratings — published 2022
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,542 ratings — published 2019
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.80 — 19,396 ratings — published 2016
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 nasa)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,774 ratings — published 2015
Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.32 — 244 ratings — published 2015
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.41 — 8,800 ratings — published 2011
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.10 — 554 ratings — published 1962
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,983 ratings — published 2009
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.05 — 694 ratings — published 1994
The All-American Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.73 — 166 ratings — published 1977
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,617 ratings — published 2009
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.12 — 737 ratings — published 2011
Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard – America's First Spaceman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.17 — 497 ratings — published 2004
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,039 ratings — published 1989
“Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the determined little nuhp cruises along for days until at last he reaches his goal. It's all a matter of superior intellect and the will to succeed.
Your people talk a lot about going to the stars, but you just keep putting your money into other projects, like war and popular music and international athletic events and resurrecting the fashions of previous decades. If you wanted to go into space, you would have.”
― Live! from Planet Earth
Your people talk a lot about going to the stars, but you just keep putting your money into other projects, like war and popular music and international athletic events and resurrecting the fashions of previous decades. If you wanted to go into space, you would have.”
― Live! from Planet Earth
“The thought that the Mayan culture managed to calculate the Earth’s
passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed to fascinate
Chuck. It was December of 2012 that had marked the end of the
Mayan calendar and also saw the Earth pass through that plane, the winter
equinox of 2012, to be precise. Of course, that exact date had been
disproved. The Mayans hadn’t accounted for leap year.
How could an ancient culture have calculated such a complex 26,000
year celestial cycle yet not figure in leap year? Yet another puzzle. Maybe
it was this rare event that accounted for the appearance of his comet.
His comet. Maybe he could be the one to officially make the discovery.”
― The Mayan Legacy
passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed to fascinate
Chuck. It was December of 2012 that had marked the end of the
Mayan calendar and also saw the Earth pass through that plane, the winter
equinox of 2012, to be precise. Of course, that exact date had been
disproved. The Mayans hadn’t accounted for leap year.
How could an ancient culture have calculated such a complex 26,000
year celestial cycle yet not figure in leap year? Yet another puzzle. Maybe
it was this rare event that accounted for the appearance of his comet.
His comet. Maybe he could be the one to officially make the discovery.”
― The Mayan Legacy
