5 Best space books like On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Cover of On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini

By: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

4.21

Format: 944 pages, Kindle Edition

GEMINI was the intermediate manned space flight program between America's first steps into space wi…

If you liked the space plot in On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by National Aeronautics and Space Administration , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2) by Kim Stanley Robinson

1. Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.95

Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to a… read more

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  • space
"Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

"Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

"That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

"Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

Cover of A Man on the Moon by Michael Kramer, Bronson Pinchot, Tom Hanks, Andrew Chaikin

2. A Man on the Moon

By: Michael Kramer , Bronson Pinchot , Tom Hanks , Andrew Chaikin

4.49

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

A celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first moon landing offers an accessible histor… read more

Similar categories in Michael Kramer's A Man on the Moon book and National Aeronautics and Space Administration's On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
"It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century," Cernan said, "and spliced it into the 1960s." That helps to explain why, as I wrote in 1993 in the preface of this book, we weren'…"

-Michael Kramer, A Man on the Moon

Cover of Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes

3. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

By: Richard Rhodes

4.19

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author o… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozak

4. LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay

By: Warren Kozak

4.26

Format: 104 pages,

Hero or Villian?The firebombing of Tokyo. Strategic Air Command. John F. Kennedy. Dr. Strangelove. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

5. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey

By: Michael Collins

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as… read more

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Cover of Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov

6. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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  • space
"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

7. Patriot Games (Jack Ryan Universe, #2)

By: Tom Clancy

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguish… read more

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8. The Right Stuff

By: Tom Wolfe

4.08

Format: 432 pages,

Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuffat a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism.… read more

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9. Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

By: Stephen Walker

4.57

Format: 512 pages, ebook

09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
Cover of On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

10. On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini

By: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

4.21

Format: 944 pages, Kindle Edition

GEMINI was the intermediate manned space flight program between America's first steps into space wi… read more

Similar categories in National Aeronautics and Space Administration's On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini book and National Aeronautics and Space Administration's On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
Cover of Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution by Duncan Campbell-Smith

11. Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution

By: Duncan Campbell-Smith

4.40

Format: 618 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of Frank Whittle – RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and Bri… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

6 Best history books like On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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4.49

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Richard Rhodes

4.19

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Warren Kozak

4.26

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4.57

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4.49

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Scott Kelly

4.55

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Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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