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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    • How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation
    • By: Michael Cassutt
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA's history, George W. S. Abbey was called "the Dark Lord", "the Godfather", and "UNO" (unidentified NASA official) by those within NASA. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight than almost anyone in history....

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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 18,835 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Experience the extraordinary journey of Brazil's first professional astronaut in this inspiring book, where dreams, determination, and success ...

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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 76 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 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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    • A Life of Flight
    • By: Jay Barbree
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler....

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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 560 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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    • 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 4,175 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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    • 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 215 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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    • 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 4,906 ratings
    • Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space....

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    • America's First Woman in Space
    • By: Lynn Sherr
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission....

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    • From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
    • By: Clayton C. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Aaron Killian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks....

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    • The Story of Astronaut Lisa Nowak
    • By: Kimberly C. Moore
    • Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
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    • Lisa Nowak had driven 900 miles from Houston to Orlando to intercept and confront her romantic rival in an airport parking lot. The "astronaut love triangle" scandal quickly made headlines....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • 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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