📚 Space Flight & Rockets

19 works · ordered by editions in print

Getting off the planet and staying there: the rocketry, the missions and the people, and the argument about what space is actually for.

Below are the 19 works carrying the subject space flight in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Exploration of Space	Arthur C. Clarke	1951	23
An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth	Chris Hadfield	2013	15
Interplanetary Flight	Arthur C. Clarke	1950	11
Entering space	Joseph P. Allen	1984	11
Space (Magic Tree House Rsrch Gdes(R))	Will Osborne	2002	10
Packing for Mars	Mary Roach	2010	10
Lost Moon	Jim Lovell	1994	9
UFO's	Carl Sagan	1972	6
Introduction to space	Thomas Damon	1989	6
Piloted space flights	Isaac Asimov	1990	5
Spacecraft Operations	Thomas Uhlig	2014	5
Satellite!	Erik Bergaust	1956	4
How do you go to the bathroom in space?	William R. Pogue	1985	4
Spaceflight	Michael J. Neufeld	2018	4
Kaleidoscope	Ray Bradbury	1940	3
Carrying the fire	Michael Collins	1974	2
The starflight handbook	Eugene F. Mallove	1989	1
Introduction to space flight	Francis J. Hale	1994	1
Space mission engineering	James Richard Wertz	2011	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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