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Bean, Alan, and Andrew L. Chaikin. Apollo: An Eyewitness Account. Greenwich Workshop, 1998. The Apollo 12 astronaut's exciting first-hand account.

Bond, Peter R. Heroes in Space: From Gagarin to Challenger. Blackwell, 1987. Chronological history of space exploration.

Hohler, Robert T. “I Touch the Future . . .” The Story of Christa McAuliffe. Random, 1986. Touching account of the teacher who died in the Challenger explosion.

Miller, Marilyn. One Giant Leap for Mankind. Silver, 1986. Story of space exploration; for young readers.

Oberg, Alcestis R. Spacefarers of the '80s and '90s. Columbia, 1985. Covers astronaut selection, training, and experience.

Ride, Sally and Susan Okie. To Space and Back. Lothrop/Morrow, 1986. Slim volume relates details of space travel; for young people.

Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. Various publishers, Reflections on seven American astronauts and the space program.

For younger readers

Berliner, Don. Living in Space. Lerner, 1993. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Briggs, Carole S. Women in Space. Lerner, 1999. Profiles of women astronauts; for readers in grades 4 to 6.

Burns, Khephra, and William Miles. Black Stars in Orbit: NASA's African American Astronauts. Harcourt, 1994. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Scott, Elaine. Adventure in Space: The Flight to Fix the Hubble. Hyperion, 1995. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Wyborny, Sheila. Astronauts. Lucent, 2000. For readers in grades 6 to 9.

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Space exploration

Burrough, Bryan. Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard the Mir. HarperCollins, 1998. An account of the 11 persons aboard Mir from 1995 to 1998 and the crises encountered on the spacecraft.

Burrows, William E. New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age. Random House, 1998, 1999. Excellent history of the men and women who have explored space.

Collins, Michael. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sunburst, 1976. 1994. For younger readers, the story of the first manned space flight to the moon, told by one of the participants.

Cooper, Henry S.F., Jr. Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970, 1995. A riveting account.

Heppenheimer, T. A. Countdown: A History of Space Flight. Wiley, 1997. A comprehensive, detailed history of how humans got into space.

Kluger, Jeffrey. Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System. Simon & Schuster, 1999. An account of the exciting discoveries of unmanned space missions

Kraemer, Robert S., and Roger D. Launius. Beyond the Moon: Golden Era of Planetary Exploration, 1971-1978. Smithsonian Institution, 2000. History of the U.S. spaceflights and the U.S. space program during this landmark decade; for a general audience.

Lattimer, Dick. All We Did Was Fly to the Moon. Whispering Eagle, 1985. One of the most complete histories covering the early space flights up through the shuttle missions.

Owen, David. Into Outer Space. Lowell House, 2000. Photographic history of space exploration.

Wunsch, Susi Trautmann. Mission to Mars That Thrilled the World. Mikaya, 1998. The story of the mission that placed the Sojourner remote-control rover on Mars, for younger readers.

Zimmerman, Robert. The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space. Oryx, 2000. Chronological reference with details on spacecraft and their missions; for a general audience.

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