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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,391,157 ratings — published 2011
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,073 ratings — published 2000
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,075,920 ratings — published 2025
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,413 ratings — published 1979
Deception Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.77 — 711,985 ratings — published 2001
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,992 ratings — published 1994
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,149 ratings — published 1974
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,989 ratings — published 1994
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.96 — 117,061 ratings — published 2016
The Astronaut Wives Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.36 — 29,101 ratings — published 2013
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.17 — 64,467 ratings — published 2013
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.50 — 24,794 ratings — published 2024
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,094 ratings — published 1994
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,121 ratings — published 2017
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,845 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 — 12,741 ratings — published 2018
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,073 ratings — published 2006
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 — 2,847 ratings — published 1999
Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.90 — 704,565 ratings — published 2022
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,210 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 — 2,970 ratings — published 2009
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,602 ratings — published 2010
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,197 ratings — published 2001
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,452 ratings — published 2005
John Glenn: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,267 ratings — published 2000
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 8 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,990 ratings — published 1998
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,645 ratings — published 2017
Voyage (NASA Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,300 ratings — published 1996
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,917,547 ratings — published 2021
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,074 ratings — published 2021
Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.08 — 339 ratings — published 2005
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.80 — 19,539 ratings — published 2016
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 — 9,605 ratings — published 2016
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.41 — 8,848 ratings — published 2011
Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.62 — 232 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 — 3,425 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 — 8,710 ratings — published 2023
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,614 ratings — published 2019
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 4.31 — 1,808 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 4.30 — 249 ratings — published 2015
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.11 — 562 ratings — published 1962
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,003 ratings — published 2009
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.06 — 701 ratings — published 1994
The All-American Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.74 — 169 ratings — published 1977
Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as nasa)
avg rating 3.56 — 173,334 ratings — published 2022
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 5 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.20 — 914 ratings — published 2021
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,627 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 — 739 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 — 503 ratings — published 2004
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nasa)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,070 ratings — published 1989
“Those who harass humans on earth are intensifying their efforts to build their homes in the skies.”
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“On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as “bilaterly symmetrical, sexually differentiated bipeds, located on one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, capable of recognising the prime numbers and moved by one extraordinary quality that lasts longer than all our other urges—curiosity.”
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