r/Spaceexploration Jun 21 '14

The /r/SpaceExploration Reading List

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I had the idea for a reading list related to various space exploration topics and, with the approval of the mods, this thread will help determine our official reading list!

When putting a book down, some things you should try your best to include may be:

  • The title
  • The author
  • The year of first publication
  • How it relates to space exploration (e.g. Orbital mechanics, space shuttle design, etc)
  • A brief description of what, or who, it's about

r/Spaceexploration 5h ago

πŸ“– History The Apollo 13 spacecraft heads toward a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean after its amazing odyssey through space. 17 April 1970.

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r/Spaceexploration 6h ago

🌠 Art, Popular Culture, and Other Can someone explain me ?

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r/Spaceexploration 1d ago

πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Science Missions Ten Years at Jupiter and Still Going Strong: NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Exceeds Expectations

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r/Spaceexploration 2d ago

πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Science Missions Happy 50th to Viking 1 landing on Mars

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Today we celebrate the Viking 1 landing on Mars!! I remember it clear as day and as the first day I fell in love with Planetary’s exploration. To the point I got into scratch building space models…….. why Revell never made a Viking lander kit is beyond me. Here is my celebration of the first landing on Mars!


r/Spaceexploration 2d ago

πŸš€ Rocket Launches SpaceX’s latest Starship launch attempt ends in a scrub

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r/Spaceexploration 3d ago

πŸ“– History Starry eyes Anna Fisher a.k.a 1st mother in space(1983), Photo by John Bryson, she was assigned to her spaceflight crew when she was eight months pregnant with her first daughter, Kristin. She gave birth in Friday, July 29, 1983, and launched into orbit just 14 months later

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r/Spaceexploration 2d ago

πŸ“– History An Australian Postwoman Was Accidentally Instrumental In The Space Race [6:35]

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r/Spaceexploration 2d ago

πŸ“– History Moon Landing 1969 | The Day We Reached the Moon πŸ‘£πŸ‘¨β€πŸš€πŸš€πŸŒ•

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r/Spaceexploration 3d ago

πŸš€ Rocket Launches The best human landing system is the one that can beat China to the moon

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r/Spaceexploration 4d ago

πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Science Missions NASA is sending a nuclear-powered helicopter to fly through the skies of another world. It is called Dragonfly, and it will be the first aircraft to operate on a moon.

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r/Spaceexploration 3d ago

πŸš€ Rocket Launches Could this interstellar travel idea possibly work?

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r/Spaceexploration 4d ago

πŸ“– History The First Vehicle on the Moon Was Stranger Than You Think

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I've been diving deeper into Apollo history, and the Lunar Rover turned out to be far more interesting than I expected.

I put together a short documentary explaining why it looked unusual and how it worked on the Moon. I'd really appreciate any feedback. As always, thank you for being so supportive.


r/Spaceexploration 4d ago

Welcome to r/SpaceExploration!

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r/Spaceexploration 3d ago

πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Science Missions Why did we not continue Venus exploration ?

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r/Spaceexploration 6d ago

πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Science Missions NASA spacecraft wakes up to continue groundbreaking mission beyond Pluto

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r/Spaceexploration 6d ago

βš™οΈ Space Engineering On June 10, 2018, NASA officially had to say goodbye to the little rover that could. The Mars Opportunity Rover was meant to last just 90 days and instead marched on for 14 years. It finally lost contact with earth after it was hit by a fierce dust storm.

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r/Spaceexploration 6d ago

πŸš€ Rocket Launches For three decades the USSR out-launched America. Now the US runs nearly double China's launches in a year and outpaces the entire planet

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r/Spaceexploration 9d ago

πŸ“– History Ham the astro chimpanzee being trained to travel into space, 1960-61, Before his successful space flight in 1961 Ham was known simply as No. 65 to avoid negative publicity in case of failure

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r/Spaceexploration 10d ago

πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Science Missions NASA mulls sending a nuclear-powered Mars rover to the moon

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r/Spaceexploration 11d ago

πŸ“– History #OnThisDay 1962, Telstar 1 relayed its first and non-public television pictures πŸ“‘ 🌍

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r/Spaceexploration 11d ago

πŸ“– History Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov and American astronaut Donald Slayton take a photo during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first meeting in space between the two opposing superpowers. The crews spent 44 hours together, and later joked they spoke Russian, English, and "Oklahomski"

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r/Spaceexploration 12d ago

πŸš€ Rocket Launches In 1962, a missing overbar in Mariner 1’s guidance code helped send America’s Venus probe off course, forcing range safety to destroy an $18.5 million spacecraft in under five minutes

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r/Spaceexploration 12d ago

πŸ“– History A close up view of astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Skylab 3 pilot taking a hot bath in the crew quarters of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth Orbit. 1973

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r/Spaceexploration 13d ago

NASA Says It’s Working Toward Making Life on the Moon a Reality

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