 | Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz
Buy used from: $0.02 Gene Kranz is most famous as the Apollo 13 flight director, but he was flight director during the moon landing and worked at mission control until the mid-1990s.
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 | Deke!: An Autobiography by Donald K. Slayton
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.64 An orginal Mercury astronaut, Slayton never got to fly until the very last Apollo capsule. A key player in the early manned space program. This is a must have.
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 | Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $1.64 Mike Collins was CM pilot on Apollo 11, and he is, in my estimation, the best astronaut writer. A great read.
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 | Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir by Bryan Burrough
Buy used from: $0.18 How NASA handled the dangers US astronauts faced on the aging Russian Mir station. Read this and Columbia accident is less surprising.
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 | The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA by Diane Vaughan
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $3.71 Diane Vaughn, author of this book, was called to testify when Columbia broke apart. A definitive work on Challenger, this book prophetically shows why Columbia happened.
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 | The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: $0.01 Tom Wolfe's classic book detailing from Yeager's supersonic flight to the Mercury space missions. Much better than the movie.
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 | Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger
Buy used from: $2.88 Original title of the book by Jim Lovell and Jeff Kluger, this became "Apollo 13" and was the basis for the movie.
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 | John Glenn: A Memoir by John Glenn
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I don't often vote Democrat, and I sort of viewed his shuttle flight as a Clinton Stunt, but I still think Glenn is a great American and was happy to see him fly again. His book is a good read.
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 | Space Shuttle Operator's Manual, Revised Edition by Kerry Mark Joels
Buy used from: $9.76 A great reference with lots of photos, this will help you understand the workings of the shuttle.
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 | Who's in Space 3e by Michael Cassutt
Buy used from: $0.55 An essential reference of everyone who was an astronaut and who was ALMOST an astronaut!
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 | Silver Linings: Triumph of the Challenger 7. by June Scobee Rodgers
Buy used from: $0.01 Ten years after she watched her husband's space shuttle explode into flames, June Scobee Rodgers, wife of Challenger Commander Dick Scobee, tells the story of the tragedy that changed her life.
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 | Sixteen Minutes from Home: The Columbia Space Shuttle Tragedy by Mark Cantrell
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy: Official Working Accident Scenario Report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and NASA (Final Technical Report July 2003) by World Spaceflight News
Buy new: $49.95 The nuts and bolts of the Columbia Accident.
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 | DIARY OF A COSMONAUT: 211 DAYS IN SPACE (Air and Space) by Valentine Lebedev
Buy used from: $1.03 Valentin Lebedev's diary describing the first expedition to Salyut 7 in 1982. Decent.
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 | The Soviet Space Race with Apollo by ASIF A. SIDDIQI
Buy new: $25.51 / Used from: $17.97 The Soviets tried hard to land on the moon.
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 | Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 If you can get by Yeager's personality, which shows in all its flair, this book is a great read.
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 | Dyna-Soar: Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System: Apogee Books Space Series 35
Buy new: $23.38 / Used from: $12.00 The Air Force nearly built a shuttle 40 years ago!
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 | The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann
Buy used from: $0.01 The story of 13 female pilots who fought to become part of the nation's space program at its inception.
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 | Reaching for the Stars: The Illustrated History of Manned Spaceflight by Peter Bond
Buy used from: $0.14 By Harrison Schmitt, geologist, and 12th of 12 men to walk on the moon.
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 | Apollo : An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker by Alan Bean
Buy used from: $14.09 Alan Bean walked on the moon and became an accomplished artist. This is his fantastic work.
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 | Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) by Rex Hall
Buy new: $29.67 / Used from: $22.52 Originally designed as the Soviet lunar ship, the Soyuz first flew in 1967 and continues today nearly 40 years later.
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 | Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System The First 100 Missions, 3rd Edition by Dennis R Jenkins
Buy new: $29.67 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | Saturn V - America's Apollo Moon Rocket by World Spaceflight News
Buy new: $35.95 / Used from: $65.84 |
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