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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- By: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall496
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Performance463
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Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.
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The best one so far...
- By Sam on 30-01-17
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Release date: 13-10-15
- Language: English
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Space
- A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake
- By: Tim Peake
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance96
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Brought to you by Penguin. From bestselling author and astronaut Tim Peake, the captivating story of humans in space. 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...
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The Re -Entry
- By J.G.Houlton on 22-06-24
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Space
- A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-10-23
- Language: English
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Our Accidental Universe
- Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens
- By: Chris Lintott
- Narrated by: Chris Lintott
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance18
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Brought to you by Penguin. The BBC presenter of 'Sky at Night', and Gresham Professor of Astronomy, Chris Lintott, takes us on an astonishing tour of bizarre accidents, big characters, and human error to tell the story of some of the most important astronomical events of the past hundred years...
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Not so accidental
- By Fran Gilhooley on 03-07-24
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Our Accidental Universe
- Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens
- Narrated by: Chris Lintott
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 21-03-24
- Language: English
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A Briefer History of Time
- By: Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Abridged
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Overall341
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Performance217
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Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of...
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Too much talk of God. American market focused.
- By M. Harding on 09-02-16
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A Briefer History of Time
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-03-06
- Language: English
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- By: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance19
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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 ONE OF THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE AND NATURE BOOK 2024 A HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST RELATED WORK 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the...
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What if woke leftists were in charge of space exploration?
- By Amazon Customer on 08-06-25
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-02-25
- Language: English
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What's Gotten Into You
- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- By: Dan Levitt
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of...
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What's Gotten Into You
- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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The Interstellar Age
- The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
- By: Jim Bell
- Narrated by: Jim Bell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance70
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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission— told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries—11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch. Voyager...
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loved it
- By Marty on 03-12-21
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The Interstellar Age
- The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
- Narrated by: Jim Bell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-02-15
- Language: English
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Falling Upwards
- Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW REPUBLIC BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2013 From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across...
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Falling Upwards
- Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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Gemini and Mercury Remastered
- By: Andy Saunders
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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Brought to you by Penguin. Embark on a captivating journey beyond Earth, from the dawn of human space exploration, through the untold story of the Mercury and Gemini missions When we think of the history of space exploration, we can’t help but think of the Apollo missions and Neil...
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Gemini and Mercury Remastered
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Chasing the Moon
- How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
- By: Robert Stone, Alan Andres
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward. A companion book to the...
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An incredible journey!
- By Anonymous on 23-10-20
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Chasing the Moon
- How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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Einstein's War
- How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World
- By: Matthew Stanley
- Narrated by: Matthew Stanley
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Einstein's War written and read by Matthew Stanley. In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper outlined his...
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Poor narration made it unlistenable
- By Chess1980 on 05-11-20
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Einstein's War
- How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World
- Narrated by: Matthew Stanley
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 23-05-19
- Language: English
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The Mission
- A True Story
- By: David W. Brown
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance16
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A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA’s deep-space mission to Europa—the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system—powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics. When scientists discovered...
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One for the insomniac!
- By Craig on 09-05-22
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The Mission
- A True Story
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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Letters of Note: Outer Space
- By: Shaun Usher
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Crystal Clarke, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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An irresistible new volume of missives about outer space, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections In Letters of Note: Outer Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful thoughts about the future of...
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Letters of Note: Outer Space
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Crystal Clarke, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones, Ferdinand Kingsley, Greg Lockett, Chris Nayak, Shazia Nicholls, Juliet Stevenson, Mark Strong, Shaun Usher
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-09-21
- Language: English
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Look Up
- Our story with the stars
- By: Sarah Cruddas, Michael Collins - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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‘Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will never stop looking up.’ Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins Most of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that have ever existed, fewer than 600 humans have ever...
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Inspirational
- By M Henderson on 19-09-20
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Look Up
- Our story with the stars
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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Falling Upwards
- Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW REPUBLIC BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2013 From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across...
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Falling Upwards
- Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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