Space Program History

Product List
  • Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • Shifting Extraterrestrial Alliances & Space Force
    • By: Michael Salla
    • Narrated by: Jerry Lord
    • Series: The Secret Space Programs Series, Book 4
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • The US Air Force is experiencing a profound shift! In order to aggregate the military’s major space assets under one authority, they are being moved into a new branch under the purview of the Air Force. This new branch is to be called “Space Force”....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • The History and Legacy of America’s First Human Spaceflight Program
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Project Mercury: The History and Legacy of America’s First Human Spaceflight Program examines the origins behind the missions, the people and spacecraft involved, and the historic results....

    Regular price: $5.42 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $5.42 or 1 credit

    • The History and Legacy of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Missions Before the Apollo Program
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Project Gemini is a neglected part of the US space program. Sandwiched between the excitement of Project Mercury and the sending of the first American astronauts to space and the euphoria of the Apollo Moon landings, Gemini was a step forward rather than a dramatic leap....

    Regular price: $5.42 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $5.42 or 1 credit

    • The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
    • By: Chris Petty
    • Narrated by: Marlin May
    • Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The role of not only the test pilots but the engineers, aerodynamicists, and support staff in making supersonic flight possible has been widely overlooked. Beyond Blue Skies charts the triumphs and tragedies of the rocket-plane era....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • By: TD Barnes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • The Space Race tells the captivating story of one of the most defining periods in human history—a battle for supremacy between the United States ...

    Regular price: $4.50 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $4.50 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
    • By: Robert Kurson
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,572 ratings
    • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind's historic first mission to the moon, from the best-selling author of Shadow Divers....

    Regular price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    • The History and Legacy of NASA's First Probes That Traveled to the Outer Solar System
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Bill Hare
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 1977, two spacecraft were launched from Earth to explore the outer Solar System, and incredibly, the now-ancient technology from the 1970s is still working, sending daily reports back to the planet that sent the two robotic envoys on their way, over 40 years ago....

    Regular price: $5.42 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $5.42 or 1 credit

    • My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
    • By: Paul Dye
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • From the longest-serving flight director in NASA's history comes a revealing account of high-stakes Mission Control work and the Space Shuttle program that has redefined our relationship with the universe....

    Regular price: $21.83 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.83 or 1 credit

    • The History and Legacy of the Competition That Pushed America to the Moon
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Mark Norman
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program....

    Regular price: $6.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $6.95 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • The First African Americans in the Space Program
    • By: Richard Paul, Steven Moss
    • Narrated by: Larry Herron
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • America's First Manned Spaceflight Program
    • By: TD Barnes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • "Discover the gripping tale of Project Mercury, America's inaugural manned spaceflight initiative that launched humanity into the cosmos. Fueled by...

    Regular price: $4.50 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $4.50 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
    • By: Stephen Walker
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • April 12, 1961. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead - and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history....

    Regular price: $21.59 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.59 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space....

    Regular price: $13.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.49 or 1 credit

    • A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
    • By: David Stumpf
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • The Inside Story
    • By: David Whitehouse
    • Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players....

    Regular price: $20.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.00 or 1 credit

    • The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Space Missions
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Bob Barton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history....

    Regular price: $14.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.95 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit