This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age

William E. Burrows

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

Douglas Brinkley

Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

Jeffrey Kluger

Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story

Jeffrey Kluger

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

Sarah Stewart Johnson

Chasing New Horizons: Inside Humankind's First Mission to Pluto

Alan Stern

Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants

John Drury Clark

We Reach the Moon: The New York Times Story of Man's Greatest Adventure

John Noble Wilford

Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures (7) (Women of Action)

Karen Bush Gibson

The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

Martha Ackmann

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

Leland Melvin

Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11

James Donovan

Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her

Rowland White

October Sky (Coalwood #1)

Homer Hickam

The Planets

Dava Sobel

For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet

Matthew Shindell

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

Loren Grush

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon

Robert Kurson

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Mary Roach

Turn Right at Orion: Travels Through the Cosmos

Mitchell Begelman

The Search for Planet X

Tony Simon

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

Andrew Smith

A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race Begins

Michael D'Antonio

A Man on the Moon

Andrew Chaikin

The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

Meredith Bagby

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

The Astronaut Wives Club

Lily Koppel