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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 9,044 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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    • 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 10,126 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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    • 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 13,964 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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    • SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
    • By: Eric Berger
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Get the untold story of the team of game-changers, led by a well-known billionaire, who are sending NASA astronauts to space—and just might carry the human race to Mars.

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    • A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.

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    • How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Tim Marshall
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an essential book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth.

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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 9,595 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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    • Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
    • By: Michio Kaku
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,460 ratings
    • The number-one best-selling author of The Future of the Mind offers a stunning vision of man's future in space....

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    • By: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,621 ratings
    • Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible....

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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 2,574 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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    • 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 4,148 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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    • Facing the Ultimate Frontier
    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 762 ratings
    • With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration....

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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 664 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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    • An Explanation of the Art of Flying
    • By: Wolfgang Langewiesche
    • Narrated by: Jason Leikam
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been continuously in print for 33 years. It shows precisely what the pilot does when he flies, just how he does it, and why....

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    • The Curious Science of Life in the Void
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Sandra Burr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,547 ratings
    • Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer....

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    • The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
    • By: Avi Loeb
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had likely been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star....

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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 1,709 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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    • By: Beryl Markham
    • Narrated by: Julie Harris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,353 ratings
    • West with the Night is the story of a remarkable woman molded and shaped by many things....

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