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

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

The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first journey to the Moon on Christmas in 1968. A riveting account of three heroic astronauts who took one…

Buy this book on Amazon

Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight d…

Buy this book on Amazon

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

April 1970. The glory days of the Apollo space program. NASA send Commander Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon.

Only fifty-five hours into the flight, disaster s…

Buy this book on Amazon

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey

NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as a vital member of the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 missions. In Carrying the Fire, his account of his voy…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned

A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.

In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Sovie…

Buy this book on Amazon

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk.

In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illumina…

Buy this book on Amazon

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival research and in-depth reporting.

On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space…

Buy this book on Amazon

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

"This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rocket Boys

The dramatic inside story of the…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series.From "America's …

Buy this book on Amazon

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

Description:
A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet and pulled away, the sexy boom of its twin exhausts echoing back at him. It was a girl driving, a girl …

Buy this book on Amazon

You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

Ian Fleming’s twelfth James Bond novel.

The tragic end to James Bond’s last mission – courtesy of Ernst Stavro Blofeld – has left 007 a broken man and of little use to the British Secret Service.

At his…

Buy this book on Amazon

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

In August 1968, one short year after three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, NASA decided that it would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Sixteen weeks later, Frank Borman…

Buy this book on Amazon

I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered ou…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)

Bond may have a license to kill, but “Pistols” Scaramanga has a talent for it. He’s a KGB-trained assassin who’s left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon of choice? A…

Buy this book on Amazon

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

In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’s S…

Buy this book on Amazon

Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.

For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we'r…

Buy this book on Amazon

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

Buy this book on Amazon

Thunderball (James Bond, #9)

"The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey eyes. He was wearing a very dark-blue lightweight single-breasted suit over a cream silk shirt and a bl…

Buy this book on Amazon

Solo Command: Star Wars Legends (Wraith Squadron, #3)

The Rebel Alliance’s elite strike force must join together with Han Solo to take down their old foe, the warlord Zsinj.

Wraith Squadron: they are the Rebel Alliance’s ultimate strike force. Sleek, swif…

Buy this book on Amazon

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

Similar books (20)