Astronaut Biography

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    • An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
    • By: Leland Melvin
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • Leland Melvin is the only person in human history to catch a pass in the National Football League and in space....

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    • By: Alan Bean, Beverly Fraknoi
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs
    • Release date: 12-16-23
    • Language: English
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    • The astronaut who landed on the moon in November 1969 and also lived and worked in Skylab in 1973 tells about his past and present life, which is ...

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Roberta Edwards
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 million people, proclaimed his step a giant leap for mankind....

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    • By: Todd Zwillich
    • Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18,839 ratings
    • Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth....

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    • The Complete Story of the First Brazilian Space Mission
    • By: Astronaut Marcos Pontes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-23
    • Language: English
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    • Experience the extraordinary journey of Brazil's first professional astronaut in this inspiring book, where dreams, determination, and success ...

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    • An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change
    • By: Cady Coleman
    • Narrated by: Cady Coleman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • One of America’s few female astronauts reveals the wisdom that helped her overcome the barriers of others’ expectations—and learn to work on a team both in close quarters and remotely.

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    • What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
    • By: Chris Hadfield
    • Narrated by: Chris Hadfield
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,912 ratings
    • Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space....

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    • An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
    • By: Mike Massimino
    • Narrated by: Mike Massimino
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,180 ratings
    • Mike Massimino's childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Lily Koppel
    • Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 562 ratings
    • The Astronaut Wives Club tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history....

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    • The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
    • By: Mike Mullane
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world - 29 men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the program....

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    • Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
    • By: Astronaut Ron Garan
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • For astronaut Ron Garan, living on the International Space Station was a powerful, transformative experience - one that he believes holds the key to solving our problems....

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    • Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
    • By: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
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    • Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space....

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    • The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
    • By: Robert Kurson
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,588 ratings
    • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind's historic first mission to the moon, from the best-selling author of Shadow Divers....

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    • The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
    • By: Loren Grush
    • Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Acclaimed journalist Loren Grush tells the true story of America’s first women astronauts—six elite women who helped build the tools that made the space program run: Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon.

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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: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 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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    • The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot
    • By: Paul Beaver
    • Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd, Paul Beaver
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 06-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot....

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    • Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
    • By: Nicholas Schmidle
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Schmidle
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • In the spirit of The Right Stuff, Test Gods is an epic story about extreme bravery and sacrifice, about the thin line between lunacy and genius. Most of all, it is a story about the pursuit of meaning in our lives - and the fulfillment of our dreams....

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    • An Astronaut's Lessons for Success on Earth
    • By: Scott Kelly
    • Narrated by: Scott Kelly
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Using 10 life-changing moments from his path to space, astronaut Scott Kelly shares his advice for mastering fear and failure and turning our daily struggles into rocket fuel for success....

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