Aeronautics & Astronautics

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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution
    • By: Duncan Campbell-Smith
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Jet Man is the story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero....

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    • The Inside Story
    • By: David Whitehouse
    • Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players....

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    • How and Why Pilots Die
    • By: Paul A. Craig
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • This survival guide for new pilots identifies the pitfalls waiting inside the killing zone, the period from 50 to 350 flight hours when they leave their instructors behind and fly as pilot in command for the first time....

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    • The Story of Britain’s Iconic Display Team
    • By: David Montenegro
    • Narrated by: Ben Willbond
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • It's now over 50 years since the Red Arrows first took to the skies, transfixing the British public with their astonishing displays of daredevil precision and aerial aerobatics....

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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    • The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home
    • By: Jack Clemons
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons - a former lead engineer in support of NASA - takes listeners behind the scenes and into the inner workings of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs during their most exciting years....

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    • A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
    • By: Michael Wall
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Out There, Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall treats that question as merely the beginning, touching off a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier. He considers, for instance, the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth....

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    • Archaeology and the Future
    • By: Alice Gorman, Adam Roberts - foreword
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Alice Gorman is a space archaeologist: she examines the artifacts of human encounters with space. These objects, left behind on Earth and in space, can be massive (dead satellites in eternal orbit) or tiny (discarded zip ties around a defunct space antenna). They can be bold or hopeful....

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    • A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
    • By: Adam Steltzner, William Patrick
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The true story of how an unlikely leader helped inspire a team of rocket scientists to achieve the near impossible: landing a 2000-pound rover on Mars....

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    • Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
    • By: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
    • Narrated by: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than three billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto....

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    • Sechs Monate auf der ISS - Eine Liebeserklärung an den Weltraum
    • By: Matthias Maurer, Sarah Konrad
    • Narrated by: Mark Bremer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-23
    • Language: German
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    • Die Faszination unendlicher Weiten: Astronaut Matthias Maurer hat sie erlebt. In seiner Autobiografie erzählt er von seiner spektakulären Mission zur...

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    • Our Future in Space
    • By: Chris Impey
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Beyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in space - and then reminds us that we're already there....

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    • The Apollo Flight that Failed
    • By: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher David
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On the evening of April 13, 1970, just hours from the third lunar landing in history, an explosion badly damaged the Apollo 13. Thirteen is the shocking and miraculous true story of how the astronauts and ground crew guided Apollo 13 back to Earth....

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    • The First Manned Mission to Another World
    • By: Robert Zimmerman
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • It was Christmas Eve 1968. And the astronauts of Apollo 8 - Commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders - were participants in a mission that took them faster (24,000 mph) and farther from the Earth (240,000 miles) than any human had ever traveled....

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    • The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
    • By: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts....

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    • Human and Machine in Spaceflight
    • By: David A. Mindell
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives....

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