Bestsellers
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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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 disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.
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Even though I have read a lot of books about this disaster. This has been the most comprehensive and enjoyable.
- De Andy en 05-25-24
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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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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Listen to the same story on his podcast for free
- De Dustin en 04-28-21
De: Malcolm Gladwell
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- De: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- De Cynthia en 09-18-16
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Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
- De: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies....
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Ben Rich's life story...but not in that order
- De Allstar en 11-05-16
De: Ben R. Rich, y otros
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Pale Blue Dot
- A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people....
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- De JR en 05-30-17
De: Carl Sagan
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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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 disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.
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Even though I have read a lot of books about this disaster. This has been the most comprehensive and enjoyable.
- De Andy en 05-25-24
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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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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Listen to the same story on his podcast for free
- De Dustin en 04-28-21
De: Malcolm Gladwell
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- De: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- De Cynthia en 09-18-16
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Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
- De: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies....
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Ben Rich's life story...but not in that order
- De Allstar en 11-05-16
De: Ben R. Rich, y otros
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Pale Blue Dot
- A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people....
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Audio Quality Choices
- De JR en 05-30-17
De: Carl Sagan
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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Eccentric Orbits
- The Iridium Story
- De: John Bloom
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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The story of Iridium - the most complex satellite system ever built, the cell phone of the future, and one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history - and one man's race to save it....
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Ugh! The skipping/repeating is INCREDIBLY irritating and distracting!
- De A. S. en 07-17-16
De: John Bloom
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Rocket Men
- The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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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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The Men Who Saved 1968
- De Gillian en 04-04-18
De: Robert Kurson
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Apollo
- De: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
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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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Best book ever for space, ops, and engineering fans
- De JDM en 10-29-19
De: Charles Murray, y otros
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- De: Amy Shira Teitel
- Narrado por: Amy Shira Teitel
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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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....
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Great research, Distracting pronunciation
- De Kindle Customer en 07-30-23
De: Amy Shira Teitel
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Packing for Mars
- The Curious Science of Life in the Void
- De: Mary Roach
- Narrado por: Sandra Burr
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer....
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know - and More
- De Roy en 09-22-10
De: Mary Roach
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The Future of Geography
- How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Tim Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes a must-have book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth....
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And Outstanding View of the World and Tomorrow
- De Anonymous User en 06-17-24
De: Tim Marshall
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- De: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....
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Science man lists names of chemicals for 9 hours
- De Adrian en 05-06-19
De: John Drury Clark, y otros
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The Future of Humanity
- Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
- De: Michio Kaku
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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The number-one best-selling author of The Future of the Mind offers a stunning vision of man's future in space....
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Simply a compilation of many other books
- De Nat Smith en 02-25-18
De: Michio Kaku
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The Wrong Stuff
- How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
- De: John Strausbaugh
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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John Strausbaugh takes us behind the Iron Curtain in this witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science....
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well researched, but so very poorly written and narrated
- De R. en 07-06-24
De: John Strausbaugh
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American Moonshot
- John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 17 h y 14 m
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As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon....
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This narrator sounds like a frikkin robot! 👎👎👎
- De Timothy Anderson en 04-04-19
De: Douglas Brinkley
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Interstellar
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
- De: Avi Loeb
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had likely been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star....
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Postcolonial intersectional astrophysics
- De Amazon Customer en 09-02-23
De: Avi Loeb
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One Giant Leap
- The Untold Story of How We Flew to the Moon
- De: Charles Fishman
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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The New York Times best-selling, "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....
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The Apollo Program in Historical Context
- De Nat en 06-19-19
De: Charles Fishman
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- De: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 23 h
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This book conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail....
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Long, comforting book on moon exploration
- De Mark en 06-17-16
De: Andrew Chaikin
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Shoot for the Moon
- The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
- De: James Donovan
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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For the 50th anniversary, the epic story of Apollo 11 and the astronauts, flight controllers, and engineers who made it happen, by the author of the best-selling A Terrible Glory and The Blood of Heroes....
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Well Told, But Over Plowed Ground
- De John en 07-24-19
De: James Donovan
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The Ordinary Spaceman
- From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
- De: Clayton C. Anderson
- Narrado por: Aaron Killian
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks....
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Great easy to listen story.
- De April en 02-21-16
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Of a Fire on the Moon
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission....
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wild view tying themes of gopd and evil
- De Jim Wilder en 06-24-19
De: Norman Mailer
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Into the Black
- The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
- De: Rowland White, Richard Truly
- Narrado por: Eric Meyers
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
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Using interviews, NASA oral histories, and recently declassified material, Into the Black pieces together the dramatic untold story of the Columbia mission....
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Great Story About a Flawed Spacecraft
- De John en 12-04-16
De: Rowland White, y otros
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Spaceman
- An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
- De: Mike Massimino
- Narrado por: Mike Massimino
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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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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Likable guy, great storyteller
- De Joy Woller en 10-09-16
De: Mike Massimino
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The Space Barons
- De: Christian Davenport
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program....
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An Incredible Modern Story Well Told
- De Greg Autry en 04-06-18
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Apollo's Legacy
- Perspectives on the Moon Landings
- De: Roger D. Launius
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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In Apollo's Legacy, space historian Roger D. Launius explores the many-faceted stories told about the meaning of the Apollo program and how it forever altered American society. The Apollo missions marked the first time human beings left Earth's orbit and visited another world....
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Too much Fluff
- De E. Tank en 05-01-24
De: Roger D. Launius
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Apollo Pilot
- The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
- De: Donn Eisele
- Narrado por: Kevin Pierce
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
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In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7....
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First hand account of space
- De Kingsley en 01-23-17
De: Donn Eisele
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Rocket Men
- The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
- De: Craig Nelson
- Narrado por: Richard McGonagle
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
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A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind....
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TRULY OUTSTANDING
- De Jeff en 05-24-12
De: Craig Nelson
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How to Make a Spaceship
- A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
- De: Julian Guthrie, Richard Branson - preface, Stephen Hawking - afterword
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
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The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight....
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A Fun and Thrilling Ride
- De Gillian en 09-28-16
De: Julian Guthrie, y otros
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Minuteman
- A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
- De: David Stumpf
- Narrado por: Douglas R Pratt
- Duración: 19 h y 3 m
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David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation....
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Enough with the acronyms!
- De Julie K. en 08-08-21
De: David Stumpf