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Amazing Stories of the Space Age
- True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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Award-winning science writer and documentarian Rod Pyle presents an insider's perspective on the most unusual and bizarre space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA. The incredible projects described here were not merely flights of fancy dreamed up by space enthusiasts, but actual missions planned by leading aeronautical engineers.
Some were designed but not built; others were built but not flown; and a few were flown to failure but little reported: A giant rocket that would use atomic bombs as propulsion (never mind the fallout), military bases on the moon that could target enemies on earth with nuclear weapons, a scheme to spray-paint the lenses of Soviet spy satellites in space, the rushed Soyuz 1 spacecraft that ended with the death of its pilot, the near-disaster of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the mysterious Russian space shuttle that flew only once and was then scrapped - these are just some of the unbelievable tales that Pyle has found in once top-secret documents as well as accounts that were simply lost for many decades.
These stories tell of a time when nothing was too off-the-wall to be taken seriously, and the race to the moon and the threat from the Soviet Union trumped all other considerations.
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Our Robots, Ourselves
- Robotics and the Myth of Autonomy
- De: David A. Mindell
- Narrado por: David Chandler
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and exploring the rapidly changing relationships between humans and machines. Drawing on firsthand experience, extensive interviews, and the latest research from MIT and elsewhere, Mindell takes us to extreme environments-high atmosphere, deep ocean, and outer space - to reveal where the most advanced robotics already exist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MUST READ
- De ryan salcido en 10-01-16
De: David A. Mindell
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Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program
- De: Pat Duggins
- Narrado por: Pat Duggins
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Journalist Pat Duggins, National Public Radio's resident "space expert", chronicles the planning stages of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1970s, the thrill of the first flight in 1981, construction of the International Space Station in the 1990s, and the decision in the early 2000s to shut the program down.
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3 out of 5 stars
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End of the Shuttle
- De Jean en 09-25-14
De: Pat Duggins
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- De: Dan Parry
- Narrado por: John Chancer
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 182
‘It didn’t matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below. “Thirty seconds,” called mission control. In truth, the flight controllers were now no more than spectators, just like everybody else. No more needed to be said. It was down to Armstrong
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow.
- De Shellbin en 02-04-12
De: Dan Parry
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The Case for Mars
- The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
- De: Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner, Arthur C. Clarke - Foreword
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 311
Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream - the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here with engaging anecdotes. The Case for Mars is not a vision for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling
- De Michael D. Busch en 04-16-18
De: Robert Zubrin, y otros
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Landing Eagle: Inside the Cockpit During the First Moon Landing
- De: Michael Engle
- Narrado por: Sean Tivenan
- Duración: 1 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In Landing Eagle: Inside the Cockpit During the First Moon Landing, author Mike Engle gives a minute by minute account of the events that occurred throughout Eagle’s descent and landing on the Moon. Engle, a retired NASA engineer and Mission Control flight controller, uses NASA audio files of actual voice recordings made inside Eagle’s cockpit during landing to give the listener an inside-the-cockpit perspective on the first Moon landing.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wanted to like this
- De R. Winchester en 07-16-19
De: Michael Engle
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Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- De: Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith, Brig. Gen. Leo P. Geary USAF - ret. - foreword
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 773
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 676
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memoir of a Legend
- De Jean en 08-26-19
De: Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, y otros
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Accessory to War
- The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- De: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,967
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,690
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,680
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space. Tyson and Lang call it a "curiously complicit" alliance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring, educational, patriotic.
- De Kevin en 09-17-18
De: Avis Lang, y otros
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Apollo 11
- The Inside Story
- De: David Whitehouse
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players. This enthralling book takes us from the early rocket pioneers to the shock America received from the Soviets' launch of the first satellite, Sputnik; from the race to put the first person into space, through President Kennedy's enthusiasm and later doubts, to the astronauts' intense competition to leave the first footprint.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Space Race Revivalism
- De Doug en 06-14-19
De: David Whitehouse
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Flying from the Black Hole
- The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam
- De: Robert O. Harder
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots - their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings - two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian bombing sorties would have been impossible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Today I learned something new.
- De Rob Wilson en 02-20-21
De: Robert O. Harder
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Harnessing the Sky
- Frederick "Trap" Trapnell, the U.S. Navy's Aviation Pioneer, 1923-1952
- De: Frederick M. Trapnell Jr., Dana Trapnell Tibbitts
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
A pilot of calculated courage, "Trap" entered the Navy when test pilots were more like stuntmen than engineers. Airplanes had not yet come into their own as weapons of war, and they had an undeveloped role in the fleet. His vision and leadership shaped the evolution of naval aviation through its formative years and beyond. When the threat of war in 1940 raised an alarm over the Navy's deficiency in aircraft - especially fighters - Trap was appointed to lead the Flight Test Section to direct the development of all-new Navy airplanes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb Book
- De Peter H. Christensen en 09-27-19
De: Frederick M. Trapnell Jr., y otros
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,893
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,875
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. Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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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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Beyond
- Our Future in Space
- De: Chris Impey
- Narrado por: Julie McKay
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
Beyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in space - and then reminds us that we're already there. Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle another world. Beyond tells the epic story of humanity leaving home - and how humans will soon thrive in the vast universe beyond the Earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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OTHER WORLDS
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 01-10-16
De: Chris Impey
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In the Shadow of the Moon
- A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
- De: Francis French, Colin Burgess
- Narrado por: Gary L. Willprecht
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. Drawing on interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, their families, technicians, and scientists, as well as rarely seen Soviet and American government documents, the authors craft a remarkable story of the golden age of spaceflight as both an intimate human experience and a rollicking global adventure.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book for space afficionados
- De Leslie F. en 04-21-16
De: Francis French, y otros
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Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- De: Mark Wolverton
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 346
After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Amid this rising tension, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: detonating nuclear warheads in space to create an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary interesting history
- De Magnus Almgren en 10-23-20
De: Mark Wolverton
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Area 51
- An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,809
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,015
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,005
It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere s75 miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the US government - but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to 19 men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to 55 additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, 32 of whom lived and worked there for extended periods.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Mike From Mesa en 06-06-11
De: Annie Jacobsen
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Last Days of the Concorde
- The Crash of Flight 4590 and the End of Supersonic Passenger Travel
- De: Samme Chittum
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
On July 25, 2000, a Concorde, the world's fastest passenger plane, was taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris when it suddenly burst into flames. An airliner capable of flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the Concorde had completed 25 years of successful flights, whisking wealthy passengers - from diplomats to rock stars to corporate titans - between continents on brief and glamorous flights. Yet on this fateful day, the chartered Concorde jet, en route to America, crashed and killed all 109 passengers and crew onboard and four people on the ground.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Solid Introduction
- De Reggie en 03-03-19
De: Samme Chittum
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SR-71, the Blackbird, Q&A
- De: Terry Pappas
- Narrado por: Chris Abell
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Higher, farther, faster - what every real aviator aspires to. The SR-71 was the epitome of this dream for three decades. The only way to beat the SR-71 was to rocket into space, and every astronaut in the office with me in the 1960s would have loved to have flown the Blackbird. In many ways it placed greater demand on piloting proficiency than any spacecraft.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great in sight on life and times of Blackbird crew
- De J Bo en 11-11-15
De: Terry Pappas
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- 01-28-19
Awesome Book!
This book is an absolute must have for space nerds and history buffs alike. Some excellent details and great narration. Satisfied my craving for space “narrative” history
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