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The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,380 ratings — published 1979
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,841 ratings — published 1994
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,678 ratings — published 1994
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,799 ratings — published 2000
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,813 ratings — published 1999
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as space-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,707 ratings — published 2005
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,022 ratings — published 1994
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,502 ratings — published 2019
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,937 ratings — published 1974
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,185 ratings — published 2001
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,292 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,295 ratings — published 2017
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as space-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,015 ratings — published 2010
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 5 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,748 ratings — published 2015
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as space-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,434 ratings — published 2016
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,655 ratings — published 2013
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 22,298 ratings — published 2024
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,010 ratings — published 2017
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 673 ratings — published 2008
Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 84 ratings — published 1988
The All-American Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as space-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 166 ratings — published 1977
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 4 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,521 ratings — published 1998
Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 16 ratings — published 1978
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 820 ratings — published 2009
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,879 ratings — published 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,719 ratings — published 2021
Apollo 11: The Inside Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 748 ratings — published 2019
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,984 ratings — published 1972
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,583 ratings — published 2018
Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 172 ratings — published 1997
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 595 ratings — published 2004
Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 156 ratings — published 2014
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 834 ratings — published 2005
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 263 ratings — published 1997
The Astronaut Wives Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 3.35 — 28,791 ratings — published 2013
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,936 ratings — published 2009
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 554 ratings — published 1962
The Moonlandings: An Eyewitness Account (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 18 ratings — published 2002
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 693 ratings — published 1994
The Man Who Ran the Moon: James E. Webb, NASA, and the Secret History of Project Apollo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 118 ratings — published 2006
Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 337 ratings — published 2005
Sputnik: The Launch of the Space Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 213 ratings — published 2001
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 208 ratings — published 2007
John Glenn: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,255 ratings — published 2000
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,024 ratings — published 1989
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 510 ratings — published 1998
Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 40 ratings — published
Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.88 — 213 ratings — published
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,637 ratings — published 2023
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,310 ratings — published 2023
