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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race.

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.

In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death-defying sixteen-hour flight, made it to Ireland.

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?

Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.

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.

Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been continuously in print for 33 years. It shows precisely what the pilot does when he flies, just how he does it, and why. Because the basics are largely unchanging, the book therefore is applicable to large airplanes and small, old airplanes and new, and is of interest not only to the learner but also to the accomplished pilot and to the instructor himself.

For centuries, the vast expanse between Mars and Jupiter was a mysterious void on the map of the heavens, a gap that hinted at a missing world. This book begins with the 18th-century astronomical hunt that, instead of a single planet, uncovered a realm of millions of worlds. It is the story of how that featureless gulf became the solar system's most intriguing frontier. Journey from the dramatic myth of an exploded planet, an idea that fueled a century of science fiction, to the sobering reality unveiled by our first robotic probes. Discover how the popular image of a dense, chaotic ...

For millennia, humanity has looked to the velvet darkness of the night sky and dreamed of visiting the stars. This book is the definitive guide to that dream in its modern, scientific form, chronicling the monumental shift from "what if" to "how." It is a comprehensive exploration of the greatest journey our species can conceive, moving the idea of interstellar travel from the pages of fiction into the realm of tangible possibility. Our voyage begins by asking the most fundamental question: why should we go? From the pragmatic need for survival and resources to the profound search for life,...

For millennia, humanity has stared at the stars and dreamed. This book is about the moment those dreams give way to a plan, focusing on the brilliant point of light in our southern sky: Alpha Centauri. It is not a work of fiction, but a detailed exploration of the most audacious project ever conceived—the colonization of our closest stellar neighbor and its Earth-sized planet, Proxima b. The journey to another star is not a mission of romance, but one of sober necessity. This book lays out the compelling, pragmatic case for interstellar colonization as the ultimate insurance policy, a way...

In Journey Through The Solar System, you can join the experience of a lifetime without leaving your home. Get ready for an unforgettable space holiday! You're about to launch on a voyage beyond your wildest dreams, touring the marvels of our Solar System (the sun, planets, comets, and asteroids) and the mysteries of the cosmos.

Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator who piloted passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.

For decades, humanity has looked to Mars as its next home, but what if our true destiny lies further out, on a world shrouded in a perpetual orange haze orbiting the ringed planet Saturn? This book presents the detailed and provocative case for why Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is the most logical and sustainable destination for a permanent human civilization. It is a journey from early science fiction dreams to a pragmatic blueprint for the future of humanity in the cosmos. Explore a world where rivers of liquid methane carve through a bedrock of solid water ice and towering mountains of ...

For all of human history, Venus has been a serene jewel in our night sky, a symbol of beauty and myth. But beneath its tranquil clouds lies a planetary-scale furnace hot enough to melt lead, under an atmosphere that would crush a submarine. This book explores the profound and shocking disconnect between the goddess of love we see and the monster that exists in reality. While humanity has set its sights on the red plains of Mars, a more audacious and, perhaps, more practical destination awaits. This book makes the counterintuitive case that the greatest barrier to Venus—its thick, toxic ...

From launchpad explosions to a pernicious cricket infestation to the demanding management style of Musk himself, the rise of SpaceX was beset with challenges and far from inevitable. Find out how the startup beat the odds and flew high enough to outpace their rivals... and where they're going next.

On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history.

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. 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. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the 20th century's greatest feat - landing humans on another world.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, a moment forever ingrained in history. Perhaps the world's greatest technological achievement - and a triumph of American spirit and ingenuity - the Apollo 11 mission, and the entire Apollo program, was a mammoth undertaking involving more than 410,000 men and women dedicated to putting a man on the Moon and winning the Space Race against the Soviets.

Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you into the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13.