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The Right Kind of Crazy
- A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
- By: Adam Steltzner, William Patrick
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats of...
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A true feast for curious minds!
- By T. Miklas on 26-05-20
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The Right Kind of Crazy
- A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-01-16
- Language: English
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Gravity's Century
- From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- By: Ron Cowen
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance63
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A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved place of gravity in quantum theory.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Amber Geddes on 26-11-22
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Gravity's Century
- From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-05-19
- Language: English
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Escaping Gravity
- My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
- By: Lori Garver
- Narrated by: Lori Garver
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance14
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The inside look at how the battle of the space billionaires began and why it matters, Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver’s firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries outmaneuvered the system of political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls “space pirates.”
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A boring attempt to have the last word
- By Carl on 01-07-22
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Escaping Gravity
- My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
- Narrated by: Lori Garver
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 14-06-22
- Language: English
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- By: Matthew Brzezinski
- Narrated by: Charles Stransky
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance42
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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. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world.
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Interesting if not groundbreaking
- By Jeeves by another name on 14-07-23
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- Narrated by: Charles Stransky
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-09-07
- Language: English
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- By: Amy Shira Teitel
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America’s nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military.
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-10-22
- Language: English
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Rocket Boys
- A Memoir
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Beau Bridges
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
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Overall37
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Performance29
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Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives....And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage...
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wish it was unabridged.
- By Amazon Customer on 30-09-21
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Rocket Boys
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Beau Bridges
- Series: Coalwood (abridged), Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-04-00
- Language: English
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The X-15 Rocket Plane
- Flying the First Wings into Space
- By: Michelle L. Evans
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight. Drawing on interviews with those who were there, Michelle Evans captures the drama and excitement of, yes, rocket science.
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A rather long-winded, one-sided story.
- By Preselector on 16-02-19
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The X-15 Rocket Plane
- Flying the First Wings into Space
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-07-14
- Language: English
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- By: Jim Holt
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Before the Big Bang
- The Origin of Our Universe from the Multiverse
- By: Laura Mersini-Houghton
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance11
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Until recently, scientists could only guess at what lay past the edge of spacetime. But as pioneering theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton explains, today new scientific tools are giving us the ability to peer beyond the limits of our universe and test our theories about what is there. Her groundbreaking research suggests that we sit in a quantum landscape whose peaks and valleys hide a multitude of other universes, and whose topography holds the secret to the origins of existence itself.
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Turbo boosted headache
- By Kindle Customertg on 29-07-22
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Before the Big Bang
- The Origin of Our Universe from the Multiverse
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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Legends Space Trivia: 3 Books in 1
- Fun Facts - 541 Cosmic Quiz Questions
- By: Pantheon Space Academy
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Today's mission: Challenge your knowledge of planets, comets, stars, and more with this exciting quiz. The three-book series is now all in one! If you're looking for a fun, engaging way to challenge your knowledge of outer space, then you need this fact-filled trivia book! You can quiz friends and family during a galactic trivia night. If a question stumps you, we include the answer and multiple facts with every quiz so you can also brush up on your knowledge.
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Fabulous book
- By Page Turner YA on 20-07-22
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Legends Space Trivia: 3 Books in 1
- Fun Facts - 541 Cosmic Quiz Questions
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Series: Fun Facts Space Trivia Collection, Book 1-3
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-07-22
- Language: English
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Starborn
- How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them
- By: Roberto Trotta
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Stargazing has shaped the entire course of human civilization. The rhythm of our ancestors' lives revolved around the stars, from cycles of agriculture to patterns of birth. How radically different would humanity be if our ancestors had looked up to the night sky and seen...nothing? In lyrical yet evidence-grounded meditations, Trotta imagines a world without stars, a dramatic alternate history in which we wouldn't understand gravity, where couldn't navigate or have much sense of time, and where our sense of the profound - of art and of the divine - was altered beyond recognition.
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Starborn
- How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 09-11-23
- Language: English
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The Holographic Universe
- By: Chuck Missler
- Narrated by: Chuck Missler
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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There seems to be evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it are only ghostly images: projections from a level of reality so beyond our own that the real reality is literally beyond both space and time. The main architect of this astonishing idea is one of the world’s most eminent thinkers - physicist David Bohm, a protégé of Einstein’s. In this executive summary, Chuck gives a current perspective on some of the areas that define our reality.
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Not amazing
- By Pauline A. Hayward on 26-03-22
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The Holographic Universe
- Narrated by: Chuck Missler
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-06-20
- Language: English
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Fatal Flight
- The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship
- By: Bill Hammack
- Narrated by: Bill Hammack
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship - a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated 50, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room.
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Great story. Great narration
- By Eddy A. on 02-06-24
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Fatal Flight
- The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship
- Narrated by: Bill Hammack
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-07-17
- Language: English
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This Way to the Universe
- A Journey into Physics
- By: Michael Dine
- Narrated by: Michael Dine
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. The enigmas Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks...
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Old style history lesson: lists of names and dates
- By Mr Chops on 06-06-22
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This Way to the Universe
- A Journey into Physics
- Narrated by: Michael Dine
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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One Giant Leap
- The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
- By: Charles Fishman
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he...
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One Giant Leap
- The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8
- The First Manned Mission to Another World
- By: Robert Zimmerman
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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It was Christmas Eve 1968. And the astronauts of Apollo 8 - Commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders - were participants in a mission that took them faster (24,000 mph) and farther from the Earth (240,000 miles) than any human had ever traveled. Apollo 8 was the mission that broke humanity's absolute bond to the Earth: it was the first manned vehicle to leave the Earth's orbit. Confined within a tiny spaceship, the astronauts were aided in their journey by a computer less powerful than one of today's handheld calculators.
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Brilliant.
- By Craig on 03-07-19
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Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8
- The First Manned Mission to Another World
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-07-18
- Language: English
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Apollo Pilot
- The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
- By: Donn Eisele
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three astronauts in early 1967, Apollo 7 helped restart NASA's manned-spaceflight program.
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Apollo Pilot
- The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 04-01-17
- Language: English
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Starlight Detectives
- How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe
- By: Alan Hirshfeld
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1929, Edwin Hubble announced the greatest discovery in the history of astronomy since Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens. The galaxies, previously believed to float serenely in the void, are in fact hurtling apart at an incredible speed: the universe is expanding. This stunning discovery was the culmination of a decades-long arc of scientific and technical advancement.
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A must for astrophotographers.
- By Joye C. on 26-06-20
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Starlight Detectives
- How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-12-14
- Language: English
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No Dream Is Too High
- Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon
- By: Buzz Aldrin
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He's a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, and the best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man in space to first men on the moon. Now he pauses to reflect on and share what he has learned, from the vantage point not only of outer space but also of time: Still a nonstop traveler and impassioned advocate for space exploration, Aldrin will be 86 in 2016.
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Entertaining and easy to listen
- By MB on 13-07-20
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No Dream Is Too High
- Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-04-16
- Language: English
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Catastrophic Disclosure
- The Deep State, Aliens, and the Truth
- By: Kent Heckenlively JD, Michael Mazzola
- Narrated by: David Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author, Kent Heckenlively, JD, and acclaimed UFO documentary director, Michael Mazzola, collaborate to bring you the latest information on the Congressional disclosure hearings and the unknown history of UFO crashes. Featuring interviews with leading figures in the UFO movement, this book delves into the government's role in recovering these crafts, attempts to understand the technology, and postulates on the intentions of these beings.
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Catastrophic Disclosure
- The Deep State, Aliens, and the Truth
- Narrated by: David Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 17-02-26
- Language: English
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