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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,908,602 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,389,064 ratings — published 2011
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,352 ratings — published 1979
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,977 ratings — published 1994
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,983 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.63 — 372 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 — 61,578 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 — 11,056 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,132 ratings — published 1974
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 64,378 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 — 7,113 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 4.17 — 4,086 ratings — published 1994
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 24,688 ratings — published 2024
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,827 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 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,712 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,614 ratings — published 2017
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.47 — 173,494 ratings — published 2023
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 62,275 ratings — published 2019
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,266 ratings — published 2023
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,630 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 199,380 ratings — published 2015
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,043 ratings — published 1996
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 147,813 ratings — published 2016
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,997 ratings — published 1994
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 191,400 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,070 ratings — published 2006
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,069,683 ratings — published 2025
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.67 — 369,259 ratings — published 2017
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 — 2,843 ratings — published 1999
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 131,512 ratings — published 1970
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,979 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 — 914 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 — 6,970 ratings — published 2021
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 39,455 ratings — published 2018
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,321 ratings — published 2015
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,306 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,197 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 — 5,378 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 4.31 — 1,804 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 344,985 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 — 3,450 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 — 8,680 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 — 2,137 ratings — published 2019
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 414,520 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 — 602 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 4.23 — 848 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 — 2,969 ratings — published 2009
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,070 ratings — published 1989
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,961 ratings — published 2021
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,128 ratings — published 2018
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.”
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