Astronaut Biography

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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: 04-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 45 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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    • By: Chris Hadfield
    • Narrated by: Chris Hadfield
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2013
    • Language: English
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    • An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth is an inspirational memoir of space exploration and hard-won wisdom, from an astronaut who has spent a lifetime making the impossible a reality....

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    • By: Todd Zwillich
    • Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 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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    • An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
    • By: Fred Haise
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2022
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 10-02-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • The Life and Legacy of the First Astronaut to Walk on the Moon
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Neil Armstrong: The Life and Legacy of the First Astronaut to Walk on the Moon profiles the famous astronaut's life and chronicles the most memorable space mission in history. You will learn about Neil Armstrong like never before....

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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: 03-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 106 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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    • An Astronaut's Journeys
    • By: Michael Collins
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • A special updated anniversary edition of the classic account of the Apollo 11 trip to the moon....

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    • By: Charles Fulco
    • Narrated by: David Armstrong
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • "Houston, We have a problem"! During the Apollo 11 moon landing, as many as 400,000 people had jobs that were essential to the successful mission. Learn about aeronautics and the different jobs in the field that helped man take the first steps on the moon.

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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: 23-03-2021
    • 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 Human Story
    • By: Tim Peake
    • Narrated by: Tim Peake
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
    • By: Nicholas Schmidle
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Schmidle
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Meet the astronauts leading the way to a new world of space travel....

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    • The Remarkable Life of John Glenn
    • By: Alice L. George
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-2020
    • Language: English
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    • On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into space....

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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: 02-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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: 15-08-2018
    • Language: English
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    • 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: Barbara Radnofsky, Ed Supkis
    • Narrated by: Barbara Radnofsky
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In 1971, famed astronaut Alan Shepard returned from the moon and went to get a haircut. Before settling into the barber’s chair in Webster, Texas, near NASA’s Mission Control, Shepard gave his longtime barber and friend, Carlos Villagomez, an autographed golf ball.

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