Astronomy History

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    • Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
    • By: Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • 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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    • Explanations That Transform the World
    • By: David Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 20 hrs
    • Release date: 18-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 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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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-2018
    • 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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    • A Big History of Everything
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 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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    • The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Part scholarship and part yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time - from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail - this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths and the discovery of secret mysteries....

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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: 29-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 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 Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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 Big Bang to Black Holes
    • By: Stephen Hawking
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-2016
    • Language: English
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    • To this day A Brief History of Time remains a staple of the scientific canon, and its succinct and clear language continues to introduce millions to the universe and its wonders....

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    • An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History
    • By: Timothy Good
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything
    • By: David D. Nolte
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions....

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    • The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
    • By: Priyamvada Natarajan
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century....

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    • Constellation Mythology of the Greeks
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-2018
    • Language: English
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    • The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our distant ancestors. This nonfiction narrative presents the tales of the 48 classical constellations, compiled from literature spanning a thousand years....

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    • A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2024
    • 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 space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research – riveting history that unfolds like a thriller....

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    • Science as a Candle in the Dark
    • By: Carl Sagan
    • Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-2017
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-2007
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • 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 Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Hoskin
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2021
    • 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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