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Space Exploration Books
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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,354,929 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,739,421 ratings — published 2021
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,604 ratings — published 1979
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,777 ratings — published 1994
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,880 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.63 — 361 ratings — published 2023
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,188 ratings — published 2010
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,881 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,993 ratings — published 1974
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,851 ratings — published 2013
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,055 ratings — published 2017
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,050 ratings — published 1994
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,743 ratings — published 2005
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 23,178 ratings — published 2024
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,450 ratings — published 2018
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.48 — 164,083 ratings — published 2023
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,384 ratings — published 2017
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,602 ratings — published 2018
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 60,318 ratings — published 2019
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 190,449 ratings — published 2015
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,029 ratings — published 1996
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,786 ratings — published 2023
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 139,681 ratings — published 2016
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 188,954 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,032 ratings — published 2006
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.68 — 355,207 ratings — published 2017
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,312 ratings — published 2015
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,504 ratings — published 1994
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,822 ratings — published 1999
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 130,556 ratings — published 1970
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.32 — 952,233 ratings — published 2025
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,900 ratings — published 2016
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 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 893 ratings — published 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,793 ratings — published 2021
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,925 ratings — published 2018
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,388 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,190 ratings — published 2001
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,343 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 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,770 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 341,933 ratings — published 1968
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,421 ratings — published 2005
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,837 ratings — published 2023
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,104 ratings — published 2019
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 398,944 ratings — published 2017
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 597 ratings — published 2004
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.22 — 840 ratings — published 2005
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,946 ratings — published 2009
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,037 ratings — published 1989
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,254 ratings — published 2014
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 90,221 ratings — published 1992
“Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.”
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“There is no escape. Eight billion humans won’t escape their issues by going to space. Our planet needs no terraforming, no cosmic radiation shielding, and no industrial production of oxygen or water. It needs no soil building and requires no multi-month travel time or lengthy communication delays. It demands no complex infrastructure. We are on board the best, most resilient, and most spacious “spaceship” we could ever build. This is it. Hopefully the space-colony dreamers will slowly realize that what they’ve been looking for is here.”
― Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage
― Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage
