Recs if you like The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts...

Heavily influenced by the picture of Christina Koch's braid floating zero-g as she smiled at the moon (2026, during the Atremis II mission). Nonfic on space from perspectives outside of white men! Space exploration, astronauts, astronomy, and the history in between it all!

Niche nonfiction books that dads are still likely to enjoy that either 1) are not military history at all or 2) a niche area of a war that is not military history

On space travel and moon joy. 🌌 A mixture of non-fiction, historical fiction and hard science fiction.

This list is full of women who solve problems, break rules, run experiments, ask inconvenient questions, and generally refuse to stay in the lanes they were assigned. Fiction and non-fiction, from romance to history. Welcome to the nerdy, brilliant chaos.

A list of books that fit the prompts for the 2026 Polymath Training Challenge. (Egypt / Sleep, dreams / Astronomy and space exploration / Gastronomy and foods / Interior design, furniture / Chemistry / Mines and mining / Exploration and explorers / Art and nature /Agriculture /Economics) plus the "choose 1" prompts (Microbiome / Chocolate and coffee / Cultural history / Boardgames and role-playing games / Linguistics / Ethology / History of science / Cosmetics / Empathy). Open to suggestions!

In honor of the Artemis II launch on 1 April 2026, here are some more books about space travel.

non-fiction accounts of NASA, rocketry, aviation, and the space age

Non-fiction works about women who went to space or worked for NASA/ESA/JAXA/Roscosmos/etc. Also (in a rarity for me) includes children's books.

Space nonfiction focusing mainly on astronauts and their travels/discoveries/life journeys (I love space)

These are books I have personally read and will add to this list as I make my way through my TBR. I'm a scientist myself so subject matter definitely has some bias.

Books about space and space exploration.