Space Hipsters Recommended Reads

1.
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery 4.21 avg rating — 22,454 ratings
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The Sky Below
The Sky Below 3.92 avg rating — 5,171 ratings
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut 4.20 avg rating — 4,847 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 3.95 avg rating — 59,461 ratings
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The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,778 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,014 ratings
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew 4.22 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
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One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon 4.14 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey 4.49 avg rating — 6,497 ratings
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The Father, Son, and Holy Shuttle: Growing Up an Astronaut's Kid in the Glorious 80s
The Father, Son, and Holy Shuttle: Growing Up an Astronaut's Kid in the Glorious 80s 4.19 avg rating — 157 ratings
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U. S. Spacesuits (Springer Praxis Books)
U. S. Spacesuits (Springer Praxis Books) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Russian Spacesuits
Russian Spacesuits 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut 4.34 avg rating — 907 ratings
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Suddenly, Tomorrow Came...: A History of the Johnson Space Center (The NASA History Series, SP-4307)
Suddenly, Tomorrow Came...: A History of the Johnson Space Center (The NASA History Series, SP-4307) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Waystation to the Stars: The Story of Mir, Michael and Me
Waystation to the Stars: The Story of Mir, Michael and Me 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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WE SEVEN M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. , John H. Glenn, Jr. , Virgil L. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Fr. , Alan B. Shepard, Jr. , and Donald K. Slayton
WE SEVEN M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. , John H. Glenn, Jr. , Virgil L. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Fr. , Alan B. Shepard, Jr. , and Donald K. Slayton 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Orbit of Discovery: The All-Ohio Space Shuttle Mission
Orbit of Discovery: The All-Ohio Space Shuttle Mission 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth 4.17 avg rating — 61,768 ratings
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond 4.30 avg rating — 10,163 ratings
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The Mars Project
The Mars Project 3.76 avg rating — 170 ratings
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? 4.03 avg rating — 6,100 ratings
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Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space
Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space 3.76 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Air Born: Two Generations in Flight
Air Born: Two Generations in Flight
by: Jan Davis
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey 3.53 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from all 135 Missions
Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from all 135 Missions 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts 4.33 avg rating — 6,176 ratings
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel 4.58 avg rating — 429 ratings
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The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams 4.16 avg rating — 1,539 ratings
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Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record
Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record 4.88 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir
Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir
by: Tom Jones
3.95 avg rating — 244 ratings
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We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race 3.92 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Space Bites: Reflections of a NASA Food Scientist
Space Bites: Reflections of a NASA Food Scientist 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Nutritional Biochemistry of Space Flight (Space Science, Exploration and Policies Series)
Nutritional Biochemistry of Space Flight (Space Science, Exploration and Policies Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight 4.23 avg rating — 1,157 ratings
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Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race 4.28 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible
Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible 4.28 avg rating — 613 ratings
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October Sky (Coalwood #1)
October Sky (Coalwood #1) 4.20 avg rating — 23,604 ratings
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves 4.09 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe 4.53 avg rating — 5,110 ratings
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space 4.29 avg rating — 2,728 ratings
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Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon
Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon 4.26 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Unbroken Chain: Apogee Books Space Series 20
The Unbroken Chain: Apogee Books Space Series 20 4.39 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End
Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)
Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series) 4.06 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission 4.33 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA's Seamstresses
Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA's Seamstresses 4.30 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of NASA’s Johnson Space Center 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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NASA Range Rats: The True Beginnings
NASA Range Rats: The True Beginnings 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Apollo 13
Apollo 13 4.39 avg rating — 9,767 ratings
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Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age 4.50 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Return to the Moon
Return to the Moon 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space 3.99 avg rating — 423 ratings
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong 3.92 avg rating — 6,501 ratings
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FROM APOLLO TO ARTEMIS: STORIES FROM MY 50 YEARS WITH NASA
FROM APOLLO TO ARTEMIS: STORIES FROM MY 50 YEARS WITH NASA 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Great Apollo Train Wreck
The Great Apollo Train Wreck liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Darkest Dark
The Darkest Dark 4.27 avg rating — 2,643 ratings
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space 4.52 avg rating — 14,519 ratings
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The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 18,175 ratings
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Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin
Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin 4.07 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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Rocket Manual for Amateurs
Rocket Manual for Amateurs 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low 4.16 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story 4.33 avg rating — 147 ratings
63.
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 4.36 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon 4.13 avg rating — 2,861 ratings
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX 4.47 avg rating — 6,224 ratings
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Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between
Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between 4.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992
Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 4.30 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America’s Race to Space (The Founders Series)
The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America’s Race to Space (The Founders Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet (Springer Praxis Books)
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet (Springer Praxis Books) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Cosmonaut: A Cultural History
Cosmonaut: A Cultural History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub
Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach 4.24 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
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Skylab: A Guidebook, EP-107 (COSPAR ID 1973-027A)
Skylab: A Guidebook, EP-107 (COSPAR ID 1973-027A) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Shuttle-Mir: The United States and Russia Share History's Highest Stage
Shuttle-Mir: The United States and Russia Share History's Highest Stage 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon 4.03 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Moonshot: What Landing a Man on the Moon Teaches Us About Collaboration, Creativity, and the Mind-set for Success
Moonshot: What Landing a Man on the Moon Teaches Us About Collaboration, Creativity, and the Mind-set for Success 3.87 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Right Stuff
Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,857 ratings
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Shuttle-MIR: The United States and Russia Share History's Highest Stage
Shuttle-MIR: The United States and Russia Share History's Highest Stage 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Managing Martians
Managing Martians 3.69 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual
The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual 4.29 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond
Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond 4.08 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Apollo 13
Apollo 13 4.39 avg rating — 9,767 ratings
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100 Stories about Docking and other Adventures in Space and on Earth; Volume 1: Twenty Years Back
100 Stories about Docking and other Adventures in Space and on Earth; Volume 1: Twenty Years Back 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Rockets and People, Volume 1
Rockets and People, Volume 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry - Memoirs of Russian Space Pioneer Boris Chertok, Stories about Sputnik, Moon, Mars, Launch Pad Disasters, and ICBMs
Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry - Memoirs of Russian Space Pioneer Boris Chertok, Stories about Sputnik, Moon, Mars, Launch Pad Disasters, and ICBMs 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon 4.42 avg rating — 6,724 ratings
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How to Astronaut: Everything You Need to Know Before Leaving Earth
How to Astronaut: Everything You Need to Know Before Leaving Earth 4.12 avg rating — 813 ratings
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High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband
High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband 4.14 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard – America's First Spaceman
Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard – America's First Spaceman 4.16 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Tortillas to Astronauts: An Unexpected Journey
Tortillas to Astronauts: An Unexpected Journey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Chasing Space
Chasing Space 3.85 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space 4.57 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
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Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program
Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her 4.30 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space 4.13 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
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Return to Earth
Return to Earth 3.77 avg rating — 340 ratings
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No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon
No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon 3.75 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module 4.27 avg rating — 566 ratings