LIBRARY
This page separates all books and poems by type. Like the other pop culture pages, it's always expanding.
Space Race Astronaut Autobiographies
No Dream is Too High -Buzz Aldrin
Countdown -Frank Borman
For Spacious Skies -Scott Carpenter
All-American Boys -Walt Cunningham
The Last Man on the Moon -Gene Cernan
Carrying the Fire -Michael Collins
Flying to the Moon -Michael Collins
Liftoff -Michael Collins
Leap of Faith -Gordon Cooper
Moonwalker -Charlie & Dotty Duke
John Glenn: A Memoir -John Glenn
Gemini!: A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space -Gus Grissom
The Way of the Explorer -Ed Mitchell
But for the Grace of God -Bill Pogue
Schirra's Space -Wally Schirra
Two Sides of the Moon -Dave Scott & Alexei Leonov
Deke! -Deke Slayton
We Have Capture -Tom Stafford
Falling to Earth -Al Worden
Forever Young -John Young
We Seven -the Mercury Astronauts
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Space Shuttle Astronaut Autobiographies
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth -Chris Hadfield
Sky Walking -Tom Jones
Endurance -Scott Kelly
Spacewalker -Jerry Ross
Go for Orbit -Rhea Seddon
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Space Worker Autobiographies
Flight: My Life in Mission Control -Chris Kraft
Failure is Not an Option -Gene Kranz
The Unbroken Chain -Guenter Wendt
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Biographies
Neil Armstrong -Jay Barbree
Fallen Astronauts -Colin Burgess
The Astronaut Maker -Michael Cassutt
Seven Minus One -Carl L. Chappell
Rocketman -Nancy Conrad
Apollo Pilot -Francis French
First Man -James R. Hansen
High Calling -Evelyn Husband
Calculated Risk -George Leopold
Smoke Jumper, Moon Pilot -Willie Moseley
Sally Ride -Lynn Sherr
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History Books
The Mercury 13 -Martha Ackmann
Live From Cape Canaveral -Jay Barbree
A Man on the Moon -Andrew Chaikin
NASA Kennedy Space Center -Mark A. Chambers
A Ball, A Dog, and A Monkey -Michael D'Antonio
Space for Women -Pamela Freni
Apollo 8 -Jeffrey Kluger
Lost Moon (Apollo 13) -Jeffrey Kluger & Jim Lovell
Rocket Men -Robert Kurson
Brining Columbia Home -Mike Leinbach
Abandoned in Place -Roland Miller
Rocket Men -Craig Nelson
The Real Space Cowboys -Wally Schirra & Ed Buckbee
The Race -James Schefter
Moon Shot -Alan Shepard & Deke Slayton
Hidden Figures -Margot Lee Shetterly
Moondust -Andrew Smith
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream -Tanya Lee Stone
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA's Apollo Sites -Lisa Westwood
Into the Black -Rowland White
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Fiction
Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three
3001: The Final Odyssey
"The Sentinel" -Arthur C. Clarke
"Brothers Beyond the Void" -Paul Fairman
Blue Gemini series by Mike Jenne
Blue Gemini: A Thriller
Blue Darker than Black
Pale Blue
Space -James Michener
Artemis -Andy Weir
The Martian -Andy Weir
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Poems
"The More Loving One" -W. H. Auden
"If Only We Had Taller Been" -Ray Bradbury
"They Dreamed" -Lawrence Edward Gebhardt
"Skylab" -Rolf Jacobsen
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" -Walt Whitman
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