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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: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 698 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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    • By: John Nichol
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....

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    • By: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 206 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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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 738 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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    • 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: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 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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    • The Human Story
    • By: Tim Peake
    • Narrated by: Tim Peake
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Only 628 people in human history have left Earth. In Space: The Human Story, astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of these remarkable men and women who have forged the way, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina Tereshkova to Peggy Whitson....

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    • The Story of Britain’s Iconic Display Team
    • By: David Montenegro
    • Narrated by: Ben Willbond
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • It's now over 50 years since the Red Arrows first took to the skies, transfixing the British public with their astonishing displays of daredevil precision and aerial aerobatics....

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • Facing the Ultimate Frontier
    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 39 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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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 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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    • 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: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 253 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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    • Test Your Memory on a Galactic Game Night! For Students & Novice Astronomy Lovers. Learn, Teach or Make a Family Game of Thought-Provoking Astronomy Facts all about the Universe!
    • By: Pantheon Space Academy
    • Narrated by: Grant Benker
    • Series: Fun Facts Space Trivia Collection, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • If you're looking for a fun, engaging way to challenge your knowledge of outer space, then you need this fact-packed trivia book! Enjoy by yourself or test your memory against friends and family in a galactic trivia night....

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    • The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution
    • By: Duncan Campbell-Smith
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Jet Man is the story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero....

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    • An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
    • By: Terry Virts
    • Narrated by: Terry Virts
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts offers an insider's guide to astronauting—a behind-the-scenes look at the training, the basic rules, lessons, and procedures of space travel, including how to deal with a dead body in space, what to do when nature calls, and much more, in 51 chapters....

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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: 04-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 218 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 Inside Story
    • By: David Whitehouse
    • Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players....

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