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  • Failure Is Not an Option cover art

    • Failure Is Not an Option

    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 732 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Victorious Century

    • The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
    • By: David Cannadine
    • Narrated by: Kris Dyer
    • Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • To live in 19th-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience....

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    • James May's 20th Century

    • By: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
      How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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  • A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts cover art

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    • Countdown to Zero Day

    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • By: Kim Zetter
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings

    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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    • Moon Shot

    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings

    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • Stealth

    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • Cult of the Dead Cow

    • How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
    • By: Joseph Menn
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings

    • Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism....

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    • The Soul of a New Machine

    • By: Tracy Kidder
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the 20th century....

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    • Simply Electrifying

    • The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • Wizard

    • The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

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    • GPS

    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life....

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    • Ignition!

    • An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
    • By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings

    • 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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    • Digital Apollo

    • Human and Machine in Spaceflight
    • By: David A. Mindell
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives....

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    • Thirteen

    • The Apollo Flight that Failed
    • By: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher David
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • On the evening of April 13, 1970, just hours from the third lunar landing in history, an explosion badly damaged the Apollo 13. Thirteen is the shocking and miraculous true story of how the astronauts and ground crew guided Apollo 13 back to Earth....

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    • Unbound

    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • To Engineer Is Human

    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • Hijacking Bitcoin

    • The Hidden History of BTC
    • By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.

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    • They Made America

    • From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
    • By: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
    • Narrated by: Harold Evans
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 20-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • There has never been a history of America like Harold Evans's long-awaited They Made America....

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  • Computing: A Concise History cover art

    • Computing: A Concise History

    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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