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The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
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The story of John C. Houbolt, an unsung hero of Apollo 11 and the man who showed NASA how to put America on the moon.
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon.
Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space.
Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable. But this junior engineer was irrepressible. He stood by his concept, fired off memos to executives, and argued that LOR was the only way to success.
For the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11, hear the untold story of the man who helped fulfill Kennedy’s challenge to reach the moon and begin exploring the final frontier.
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About the Creator and Performer
Todd Zwillich is a political journalist, radio host and author living in Washington, DC. He's spent much of his career covering politics from the front row on Capitol Hill, the White House and on the campaign trail. He covered politics and campaigns for The Takeaway, a public radio show, where he also served as host. Today, he can be heard regularly hosting NPR's 1A. Todd Zwillich has interviewed some of America's most well-known newsmakers, authors and historians, including Henry Kissinger, Salman Rushdie and Robert Caro. He's a lifelong space and science enthusiast.
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In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons - a former lead engineer in support of NASA - takes listeners behind the scenes and into the inner workings of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs during their most exciting years. Discover the people, the events, and the risks involved in one of the most important parts of space missions: bringing the astronauts back home to Earth. Clemons joined Project Apollo in 1968, a young engineer inspired by science fiction and electrified by John F. Kennedy's challenge to the nation to put a man on the moon.
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Jack Clemons has all the right stuff in this book
- De Michael N. Kafes en 10-16-18
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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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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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Long, comforting book on moon exploration
- De Mark en 06-17-16
De: Andrew Chaikin
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Endurance
- A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
- De: Scott Kelly
- Narrado por: Scott Kelly
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years. A natural storyteller and modern-day hero, Kelly has a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come. Here, in his personal story, we see the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the boundless wonder of the galaxy.
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Great insights with bad audio quality
- De Marc Freudenberg en 11-27-17
De: Scott Kelly
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The Space Race
- An Audible Original
- De: Colin Brake, Patrick Chapman, Richard Hollingham, y otros
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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A century ago very few people dreamed of space travel. Today it is the most daring and technologically sophisticated quest ever undertaken, being driven not just by government agencies such as NASA and ESA, but also by visionaries such as Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), Elon Musk (SpaceX) and Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin). To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, this major drama-documentary series charts the definitive story of the past, present and future of humankind’s exploration of space. The Space Race is narrated by Kate Mulgrew and features a full cast.
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All Nonfiction Parts GREAT but Fiction Bad
- De Catherine Puma en 03-18-20
De: Colin Brake, y otros
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
- A History of Obsession
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
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The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals).
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Excellent!
- De Christine en 12-27-22
De: Kate Summerscale
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- De: George Pendle
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.
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Finally on Audible!
- De Jason N en 05-16-19
De: George Pendle
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
- The Lives and Careers of the First Men on the Moon
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Scott Clem
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
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At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, time stood still throughout the world, as thousands converged at the Kennedy Space Center and millions tuned in on live television. At that instant, the first rumbles began to shake the ground, as a small spacecraft attached to the giant Saturn V rocket, several hundred feet tall, started lifting off. Apollo 11 was on its way to a historic first landing on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: The Lives and Careers of the First Men on the Moon profiles both astronauts and the most memorable space mission in history.
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The Space Barons
- De: Christian Davenport
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
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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. Nearly a half century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons—most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen—are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space travel and send humans even further than NASA has gone.
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An Incredible Modern Story Well Told
- De Greg Autry en 04-06-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
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- C Jeffrey Phillips
- 09-24-19
Massive fact error crashes, burns this title
I got this title with great expectations, since I love everything Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Sadly, my experience with this book never got off the ground.
I stopped listening the moment I heard the narrator talk about the baseball game attended by President Kennedy, which featured Ernie Banks of the Chicago WHITE SOX. WHITE SOX.
That is an inexcusable fact error. Even the most cursory review of history quickly reveals that Ernie Banks was Mr. Cub. As a person who spent more than 30 years working in newsrooms, your reporting of the facts is the key to your credibility. When you screw up something this easy, how can I trust you on anything else.
The writer lost me with that glaring mistake,
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- Bob Gibson
- 07-09-19
An engineer with the "Right Stuff"
I was unaware of this story, and was really impressed by it. It makes.me proud to be an Engineer. Thank you for telling us about him, and those who walk in his footsteps.
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- Louis Macareo
- 07-08-19
A Wonderful Rendering of a Consequential Story
What a wonderfully written and executed story of a man who in all estimates was at least one sin qua non making it possible to get to the moon in 1969. The amount of credit due him is debatable but it appears to be somewhere between a lot of credit and a hell of a lot of credit. More important than that is a story of perseverance and what to do when you truly believe in your ideas. John Houbolt pushes ideas against incredible rejection until they finally held sway. The risks that he took to his career are easy to ignore when you know that the outcome was a successful landing on the moon but just imagine if some of the most Brilliant Minds in the world told you that you were full of shit. How hard would you continue to push what you believe is right? At the end the book poses the example of the O-rings from the space shuttle disaster and how the key engineer there knew that something was not right but regrets to this day not fighting harder to make that case. It is always hard to imagine how we will respond when everything is really on the line and most people never really find out what they're made of in that regard but this book exemplifies what this person did in any case and it's a great book to experience as we approach the 50 year anniversary of what is to me the most consequential event that has ever happened in history of mankind.
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- Scott Fletcher
- 07-30-19
who would have known, thanks John
If it wasn't for John we may not have made it to the moon. John steadfastness and perseverance make it happen.
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- Dannie
- 07-22-19
A must listen!
A very interesting and human story about the Apollo 11 mission. Will recommend to friends.
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- Van Welton
- 07-12-19
Please Read This !
An absolute treat for the inquiring mind regardless of your generation. A testament to vision & determination. A reconciliation of Space History. Please read this.
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- Victor
- 07-25-19
Excellent for who is a English learner.
Audible needs originals in others languages, like: Spanish, French, Italian and German languages. best wishes and greetings from Brazil.
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- D. Quist
- 02-09-20
Great story, poor engineering of sound levels
We listened to it from start to finish, but were frustrated at times by the sound levels, especially when Mary and others spoke.
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- Tim V.
- 08-06-19
wow
I have heard and read a little about the events but there are lots and lots and lots of amazing side stories
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- Robert Russell
- 07-08-19
Excellent!
A very good look back at the technological difficulties in going to the moon in 1969. I thoroughly enjoyed this read.
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