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Aeronautics & Astronautics Audiobooks

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    An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

    by Chris Hadfield ...
    Narrated by Chris Hadfield ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success – and survival – is an unconventional ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Westwind

    The classic lost thriller from the Iconic #1 Bestselling Writer of Channel 4’s MURDER ISLAND

    by Ian Rankin ...
    Narrated by Ian Rankin, Julian Rhind-Tutt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* * * * *It always starts with a small lie. That's how you stop noticing the bigger ones.After his friend suspects something strange going on at the launch facility where they both work - and then goes missing - Martin Hepton doesn't believe the official line of "long-term sick leave"...Refusing to stop asking questions, he leaves his ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Carrying the Fire

    An Astronaut's Journeys

    by Michael Collins ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 17 min

    'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book ReviewIn July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human history.In this remarkable memoir, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Wright Brothers

    by David McCullough ...
    Narrated by David McCullough ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Apollo 8

    The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

    by Jeffrey Kluger ...
    Narrated by Brian Troxell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 8 min

    This program includes a bonus conversation with Commander Frank Borman plus archival audio from Apollo 8's lunar orbit and from the cockpit during the mission**.**The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our blackest, bloodiest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would l... ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Leadership Moments from NASA

    Achieving the Impossible

    by Dr. Dave Williams, Elizabeth Howell, PhD ...
    Narrated by Matthew Josdal ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the organizational culture, leadership styles, and insights of NASA senior executives spanning five decades of human spaceflight, to share the lessons they learned from critical moments where they took on seemingly insurmountable challenges. How ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    One Giant Leap

    The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

    by Charles Fishman ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 5 min

    **The New York Times bestselling, “**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.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Moon Hoax?

    Conspiracy Theories on Trial

    by Thomas Eversberg ...
    Narrated by Alex Boyles ...
    series The Science and Fiction Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    This audiobook is about the American moon landings—and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality of these landings. Were the images of men on the moon really just a huge and cleverly executed hoax? Eversberg explains the best-known claims and conspiracy theories, and analyzes the evidence with the help of detailed full-color images, as well as numerous film documents that can be ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Case for Space

    How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility

    by Robert Zubrin ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it. A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers but competing entrepreneurs. These daring pioneers are creating a revolution in spaceflight that promises to transform the near future. Astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin spells out the potential of these new ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Truth, Lies, and O-Rings

    Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

    by Allan J. McDonald ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 59 min

    On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Next Frontier, The

    The Mission for Humans to Live in Space

    by Seeker ...
    Narrated by Julian Huguet, Amanda Deisler, Amy Shira Teitel, Angel Abbud-Madrid, PhD, Emily Calandrelli, Lauren Ellis, Maren Hunsberger, Matt Morales ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 4 min

    Since astronauts first ventured into space in the early 1960s, the human race has been thinking about the bigger picture: Could we ever live in space? Where would we plant our new roots?Explore the ways engineers, researchers and astrophysicists are pushing our scientific limits every day to get us closer to living on another planet.Learn about:• NASA's future explorations to the Sun and Mars• How ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Private Pilot License Exam Test Prep, The

    Everything You Need to Know to Pass the Check-Ride and Get Your PPL on the First Try with Flying Colors. Theory, Tests, Explanations, +130 Q&A, Vocabulary

    by ISAIAH GARNER ...
    Narrated by Tom Brooks ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    If you're eager to get certified and fly to find out what it's like to see the world from thousands of feet in the air, you need to know the valuable information we have reserved for you.The Private Pilot's License is the first license every pilot must obtain. In my opinion, it is one of the most rewarding because of the excitement of learning things you've probably never done before!This manual ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Building and Sending Interstellar Probes

    by Martin K. Ettington ...
    Narrated by Martin K. Ettington ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 18 min

    Man has dreamed of travelling to the stars for as long as he knew that those points of light in the sky were stars like the Sun.Now, in the 21st century there are actual studies and plans to send interstellar space probes to the nearest stars. Probably to Alpha Centauri which is only 4.3 light years away.What is the history of plans to get to the nearest star? And what are the plans today to make ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Life on Mars

    What to Know Before We Go

    by David A. Weintraub ...
    Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 59 min

    Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go by 2024, while Mars One wants to land a permanent settlement there in 2032. As we gear up for missions like these, we have a responsibility to think deeply about what kinds of life may already inhabit the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Designing & Building Space Colonies- A Blueprint for the Future

    by Martin K. Ettington ...
    Narrated by Martin K. Ettington ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 13 min

    Designing & Building Space Colonies-A Blueprint for the FutureOne of the greatest adventures in the future of humanity will be to construct, work, and live in space based structures.In this book we look at the history of ideas for living in space, proposed space colony designs, and technology.The details of current life support technology on the International Space Station is reviewed, and what ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Too Far From Home

    A Story of Life and Death in Space

    by Chris Jones ...
    Narrated by Erik Davies ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 53 min

    An incredible true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all–outer spaceFor a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk it entails: men such as U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in November 2002 left on what was to be a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Yuri Gagarin in London and Manchester

    A smile that changed the world?

    by Gurbir Singh ...
    Narrated by Gurbir Singh ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    The first human spaceflight on 12th April 1961 shocked the West and made cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin the most famous person on the planet. As one of human civilisation’s seminal accomplishments it was borne out of technology designed for weapons of mass destruction. Following the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Soviet Union charged headlong into the exploration of the Moon, Venus and Mars, demonstrating ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Weather Flying

    by Robert N. Buck, Robert O. Buck ...
    Narrated by TJ Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 50 min

    THE BEST RESOURCE A PILOT CAN HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO FLY IN ALL TYPES OF WEATHER How do you improve on the best guide for pilots to learn how to fly in all kinds of weather? The answer is the Fifth Edition of Weather Flying. Regarded as the bible of weather flying, this aviation classic not only continues to make complex weather concepts understandable for even the least experienced of flyers, ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3B (Federal Aviation Administration)

    by Federal Aviation Administration ...
    Narrated by Airman Audio ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 43 min

    Unabridged and expertly crafted for audiobook listeners. The Airplane Flying Handbook provides basic knowledge that is essential for pilots. This handbook introduces basic pilot skills and knowledge that are essential for piloting airplanes. It provides information on transition to other airplanes and the operation of various airplane systems. It is developed by the Flight Standards Service, ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How to Make a Spaceship

    A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight

    by Julian Guthrie ...
    Narrated by Robert Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 36 min

    Afterword by Professor Stephen HawkingThe historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflightAlone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Spaceflight

    The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiosity

    by Giles Sparrow ...
    Narrated by Emma Hignett ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 56 min

    Follow the compelling epic story of mankind's exploration of the final frontier with a foreword by Buzz Aldrin.This compelling story of exploration charts and celebrates humankind in space, from Sputnik's launch in 1957 through the Apollo Moon landings and the International Space Station to future missions to Mars and beyond.Spaceflight chronicles how, in the six decades that followed Sputnik, the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

    by Eric Berger ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    ‘Just read it.’ Elon MuskThe dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Human & Alien UFO Anti-Gravity Research

    by Martin K. Ettington ...
    Narrated by Martin K. Ettington ...
    Audiobook 4 - The Aliens and UFO Secrets Series

    Unabridged

    2 hours 17 min

    Quite a few books have been written about anti-gravity and UFOs. I surveyed the existing literature and determined that a solid collection of real research on anti-gravity and possible Alien anti-gravity technology really does not exist in one place.The US Government has also been doing research on this topic for over seventy years.When I decided to write this book I collected many disparate ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Drones for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Successfully Flying a Drone

    by Kevin J. Croft ...
    Narrated by Nick Dolle ...

    Unabridged

    27 min

    Learn how to master the drone controls and fly your UAV successfully.Today only, get this audio bestseller for a special price.In this audio program we will cover the basics from safety precautions to remote control mastery. We’ll walk you step by step from proper take off, hovering, adjusting your throttle and altitude, and others. You will learn basic maneuvers like circular flying, continuous ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial