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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 133 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 Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
    • Written by: Stephon Alexander
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • 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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    • Human and Machine in Spaceflight
    • Written by: David A. Mindell
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2019-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives....

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    • John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
    • Written by: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 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 American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • Written by: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2016-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 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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    • Written by: Jo Marchant
    • Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2014-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • Written by: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, a Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet
    • Written by: Marc Hartzman
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-15
    • Language: English
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    • Filled with entertaining history, pop culture ephemera, and interviews with NASA scientists, The Big Book of Mars is the most comprehensive look at our relationship with Mars - yesterday, today, and tomorrow....

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    • An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
    • Written by: Fred Haise
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 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 Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
    • Written by: Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 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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    • Written by: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2015-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 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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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • Written by: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2007-09-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
    • Written by: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 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 Life of Neil A. Armstrong
    • Written by: James R. Hansen
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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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    • The Rise of Intelligence, from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe
    • Written by: Richard Yonck
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Future Minds, Richard Yonck challenges our assumptions about intelligence - what it is, how it came to exist, its place in the development of life on Earth and possibly throughout the cosmos....

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