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Perspectives on the Moon Landings
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Roger D. Launius
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An all-encompassing look at the history and enduring impact of the Apollo space program...
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, and thus they loom large in our collective memory. Many have detailed the exciting events of the Apollo program, but Launius offers unique insight into its legacy as seen through multiple perspectives.
He surveys a wide range of viewpoints and narratives, both positive and negative, surrounding the program. These include the argument that Apollo epitomizes American technological - and political - progress; technological and scientific advances garnered from the program; critiques from both sides of the political spectrum about the program's expenses; and even conspiracy theories and denials of the program's very existence.
Throughout the book, Launius weaves in stories from important moments in Apollo's history to draw readers into his analysis. Apollo's Legacy is a must-read for space buffs interested in new angles on a beloved cultural moment and those seeking a historic perspective on the Apollo program.
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In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed the nation spend $20 billion to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. Based on eyewitness accounts and newly discovered archival material, Chasing the Moon reveals the unknown stories of the fascinating individuals whose imaginative work across decades culminated in America’s momentous achievement. More than a story of engineers and astronauts, the moon landing - now celebrating its 50th anniversary - grew out of the dreams of science fiction writers, filmmakers, military geniuses, and rule-breaking scientists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fifty years ago...
- De GraceAgnes en 06-14-19
De: Robert Stone, y otros
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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 75
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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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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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1 out of 5 stars
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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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Mars Direct
- Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future
- De: Robert Zubrin
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 1 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
The human race is at a crossroads. In the coming years, we will make decisions regarding our human spaceflight program that will lead to one of two familiar futures: the open universe of Star Trek, where we allow ourselves the opportunity to spread our wings and attempt to flourish as an interplanetary species - or the closed, dystopian, and ultimately self-destructive world of Soylent Green. If we ever hope to live in the future that is the former scenario, our first stepping stone must be a manned mission to Mars.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what i thought it was going to be..
- De DUDE en 05-07-13
De: Robert Zubrin
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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 1,975
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,698
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,688
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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Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs & Extraterrestrial Alliances
- De: Michael E. Salla
- Narrado por: Jerry Lord
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 496
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 423
Classified space programs have been an integral part of a complex jigsaw puzzle concerning UFOs, extraterrestrial life, ancient civilizations and advanced aerospace technologies, which have long defied any coherent understanding. Now finally, we have something to put all the pieces together with the disclosures of secret space program whistleblower, Corey Goode. A detailed investigation of Goode’s and other insider testimonies reveals the big picture of a parallel world of secret space programs and extraterrestrial alliances.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A waste of time
- De Roland Vellanoweth en 03-09-19
De: Michael E. Salla
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Losing Military Supremacy
- The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
- De: Andrei Martyanov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 192
This book explores the dramatic difference between the Russian and US approach to warfare, which manifests itself across the whole spectrum of activities from art and the economy to the respective national cultures; illustrates the fact that Russian economic, military, and cultural realities and power are no longer what American "elites" think they are by addressing Russia's new and elevated capacities in the areas of traditional warfare, as well as cyberwarfare and space; and studies several ways in-depth in which the US can simply stumble into conflict with Russia and what must be done to avoid it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mixes Truth with Propoganda
- De Gavin en 02-08-21
De: Andrei Martyanov
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You Belong to the Universe
- Buckminster Fuller and the Future
- De: Jonathon Keats
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 348
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 289
A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist", the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring neither plumbing nor sewage. Yet in spite of his brilliant mind and lifelong devotion to serving mankind, Fuller's expansive ideas were often dismissed, and have faded from public memory since his death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bucky, Bucky, Bucky
- De Amazon Customer en 08-25-18
De: Jonathon Keats
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Restricted Data
- The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
- De: Alex Wellerstein
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author's efforts, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early 21st century. A compelling history of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alright. Some interesting facts
- De Dustin C. en 07-28-24
De: Alex Wellerstein
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T-Minus AI
- Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
- De: Michael Kanaan
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
In T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power, author Michael Kanaan explains the realities of AI from a human-oriented perspective that's easy to comprehend. A recognized national expert and the U.S. Air Force's first Chairperson for Artificial Intelligence, Kanaan weaves a compelling new view on our history of innovation and technology to masterfully explain what each of us should know about modern computing, AI, and machine learning.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Trivial Book Regarding AI
- De AstroMan en 10-30-20
De: Michael Kanaan
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Trekonomics
- The Economics of Star Trek
- De: Manu Saadia
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 845
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 751
What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's imprint PiperText, approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward - through thinking about a universe where scarcity does not exist. Delving deep into the details and intricacies of 24th-century society, Trekonomics explores post-scarcity and whether we, as humans, are equipped for it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Amusing & Practical Analysis of Fictional Ideas
- De Lost In The Wash en 09-19-16
De: Manu Saadia
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On the Future
- Prospects for Humanity
- De: Martin Rees
- Narrado por: Martin Rees, Samuel West
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes - good and bad - are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and best-selling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Science, the future, and great wisdom
- De Philomath en 10-29-18
De: Martin Rees
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The Kill Chain
- Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
- De: Christian Brose
- Narrado por: Christian Brose
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,640
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,258
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,249
When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone gets it backwards. We think in terms of buying single military systems, such as fighter jets or aircraft carriers. And when we think about modernizing those systems, we think about buying better versions of the same things. But what really matters is not the single system but "the battle network"—the collection of sensors and shooters that enables a military to find an enemy system, target it, and attack it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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important message but repetitive
- De Tomas Singliar en 06-06-20
De: Christian Brose
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
- De: William Perry
- Narrado por: Kevin F Spalding
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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His journey has just begun
- De Amazon Customer en 04-18-17
De: William Perry
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The Last Warrior
- Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
- De: Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 189
Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under 12 defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than that. Covering some of the most pivotal episodes of the last half century and peopled with some of the era's most influential figures, The Last Warrior tells Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting man
- De FoxMan en 04-28-17
De: Andrew Krepinevich, 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 400
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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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Another Bloody Century
- De: Colin Gray
- Narrado por: David Shaw-Parker
- Duración: 19 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Many nations, peoples and special interest groups believe that violence will advance their cause. Warfare has changed greatly since the Second World War; it continued to change during the late 20th century, and this process is still accelerating. Political, technological, social and religious forces are shaping the future of warfare, but most Western armed forces have yet to evolve significantly from the Cold War era when they trained to resist a conventional invasion by the Warsaw Pact.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a must read for those who study warfare
- De Austin en 01-21-24
De: Colin Gray
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- De: Harm de Blij
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A book that needs more than just narration
- De Organic Design en 06-10-15
De: Harm de Blij
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Apollo's Legacy
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- E. Tank
- 05-01-24
Too much Fluff
the author is a little long-winded explanations and goes off on tangents that are really not necessary to the story. I'm a big fan of Apollo but there are many better reads on Audible on the subject as compared to this particular book.
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