Military Space History

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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: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 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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    • A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,052 ratings
    • Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....

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    • An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
    • By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 666 ratings
    • Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....

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    • A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
    • By: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,130 ratings
    • From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies....

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    • Shifting Extraterrestrial Alliances & Space Force
    • By: Michael Salla
    • Narrated by: Jerry Lord
    • Series: The Secret Space Programs Series, Book 4
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • The US Air Force is experiencing a profound shift! In order to aggregate the military’s major space assets under one authority, they are being moved into a new branch under the purview of the Air Force. This new branch is to be called “Space Force”....

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    • The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
    • By: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
    • Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,966 ratings
    • In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....

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    • Book One
    • By: Andrew Tanner
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • Welcome to the apocalypse, Norse style! In 2147, an insurgency prepares to strike at an occupying force that has warehoused most humans in orbital ...

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    • Military Strategy Beyond Orbit
    • By: John C. Wright
    • Narrated by: John C. Wright
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Offering critical observations regarding this unique theater of international relations, a military professional explores the strategic implications as human affairs move beyond Earth's atmosphere....

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    • Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
    • By: Mark Wolverton
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
    • As the superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship in the late 1950s, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack....

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    • The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
    • By: Nathalia Holt
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,076 ratings
    • The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space....

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    • The ME 262 Story
    • By: Mano Ziegler
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Hitler's Jet Plane fills an important gap in the history of the Luftwaffe and of aviation in general with new research which discloses how the first military jet plane failed to make its mark on World War II....

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    • A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
    • By: David Stumpf
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation....

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    • The Making of a Fighter Pilot
    • By: Robert Gandt
    • Narrated by: Thomas Block
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Americans are fascinated by the undeniable mystique of the elite world of Navy fighter pilots. In Bogeys and Bandits, Robert Gandt takes listeners on a thrilling ride....

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    • Eisenhower, CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
    • By: Philip Taubman
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • During the early and most dangerous years of the cold war, a handful of Americans, led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, revolutionized spying and warfare....

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    • A History of a Cold War Missile
    • By: David Stumpf
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A comprehensive study of the missile system that formed a critical component of the United States' nuclear arsenal....

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    • Legacy of the Aldenata
    • By: John Ringo, Tom Kratman
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Series: Legacy of the Aldenata, Book 7
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 712 ratings
    • The invaders are coming; the Posleen, a seemingly unstoppable horde who have conquered one star system after another, literally feeding on their conquests....

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    • The MiG-25 in Combat
    • By: Mike Guardia
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From the Sinai Peninsula...to the Soviet-Afghan War...to Operation Desert Storm, Foxbat Tales is the definitive operational and combat history of the MiG-25....

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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: 03-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 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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