Astronomy History

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    • The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
    • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • 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 Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • Auteur(s): Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Grove
    • Durée: 13 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • 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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    • An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
    • Auteur(s): John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 9 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • 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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    • Auteur(s): Jo Marchant
    • Narrateur(s): Julie Eickhoff
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the 100-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism....

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    • Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
    • Auteur(s): Paul Davies
    • Narrateur(s): George K. Wilson
    • Durée: 10 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization....

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    • Auteur(s): Maria Popova
    • Narrateur(s): Natascha McElhone
    • Durée: 21 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries....

    Prix courant: 32,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
    • Auteur(s): James R. Hansen
    • Narrateur(s): Jeremy Bobb
    • Durée: 16 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong....

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    • Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
    • Auteur(s): Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Richards
    • Durée: 11 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors....

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    • John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
    • Auteur(s): Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
    • Durée: 17 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • 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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    • Auteur(s): David McCullough
    • Narrateur(s): David McCullough
    • Durée: 10 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-05-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 évaluations
    • 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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    • Auteur(s): Gordon Grimwade
    • Narrateur(s): David Armstrong
    • Durée: 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • What is a space archaeologist? After decades of leaving behind old pieces of equipment orbiting in space, scientists want to clean it up. An archaeologist determines what is important to save for the history of human space exploration.

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    • Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
    • Auteur(s): Marcia Bartusiak
    • Narrateur(s): Gabra Zackman
    • Durée: 6 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological "tales" by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In 32 concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe....

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    • The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
    • Auteur(s): Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 4 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 évaluations
    • This New York Times best-selling author chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto, man's best celestial friend.

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Auteur(s): DK
    • Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
    • Série: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Durée: 15 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Exploring more than 80 of the world's most scientific theories and big ideas across the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and math, this audiobook offers a fascinating look at the history of science....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Leigh Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Schoeneberg
    • Durée: 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Have you ever looked into the night sky and wished that you could walk on the Moon? Find about what it is like from the astronauts that were first to do it!

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    • Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
    • Auteur(s): Philip Plait
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Scullin
    • Durée: 9 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Dr. Philip C. Plait sets the record straight on many modern hoaxes and myths. Appalled that millions of Americans don't believe in the moon landing, or that an egg stands on its end only on the vernal equinox, Plait hilariously spills the truth and informs us of scientific inaccuracies....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
    • Auteur(s): John Hands
    • Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson
    • Durée: 31 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Cosmosapiens is a big-picture look at how human life emerged and evolved in the universe, incorporating the ideas of world-renowned experts....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World
    • Auteur(s): Stefan Klein
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 3 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In 10 short chapters of lyrical prose, Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science....

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    • A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
    • Auteur(s): Brian Keating
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang - or so they'd thought....

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