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    • An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
    • By: Fred Haise
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon....

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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: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 508 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: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 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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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,200 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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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: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006 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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    • My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
    • By: Leonard Susskind
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,099 ratings
    • What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,062 ratings
    • Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

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    • AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
    • By: Adam Becker
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Science writer Adam Becker investigates how Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, emergent AI tyrants, and limitless growth—pervert public discourse and distract us from real social problems.

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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 683 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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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,625 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 484 ratings
    • As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon....

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    • The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
    • By: Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,716 ratings
    • In August 1968 NASA made a bold decision: In just 16 weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon....

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    • The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
    • By: Rowland White, Richard Truly
    • Narrated by: Eric Meyers
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 583 ratings
    • Using interviews, NASA oral histories, and recently declassified material, Into the Black pieces together the dramatic untold story of the Columbia mission....

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    • SHATTERED VEIL
    • By: Jay Haque
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Union holds the stars in silence. But something beneath that silence is waking. Kryth Varos was once destined for brilliance—until the Guild ...

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    • The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
    • By: George Pendle
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 673 ratings
    • The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy, but....

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