Astronomy History

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • Written by: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 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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    • The Special and the General Theory
    • Written by: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Julian Lopez-Morillas
    • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2009-11-14
    • Language: English
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    • Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory....

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    • Written by: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 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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    • A Big History of Everything
    • Written by: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....

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    • My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
    • Written by: Leonard Susskind
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2008-07-08
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • Written by: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-07
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History
    • Written by: Timothy Good
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This fascinating new volume tells the story of contact between aliens and humans from all across the globe, dating back to 1932, including meetings with military personnel and American presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy....

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    • An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
    • Written by: Rob Manning, William L. Simon
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2014-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe....

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    • Science as a Candle in the Dark
    • Written by: Carl Sagan
    • Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 276 ratings
    • How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....

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    • Explanations That Transform the World
    • Written by: David Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 20 hrs
    • Release date: 2011-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

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    • And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong
    • Written by: Dr Becky Smethurst
    • Narrated by: Dr. Becky Smethurst
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects—Dr Becky explains all, and why nearly everything you know about them is wrong....

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    • A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
    • Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 952 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
    • Written by: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2015-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 277 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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    • The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications
    • Written by: David Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The author of the best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections....

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    • A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    • Written by: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-14
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Michael Hoskin
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-08
    • Language: English
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    • This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-19th century....

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