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  JC & Me at 33 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 220min

  A comedic spiritual journey leading through Hell to Heaven. Following his divorce, Cris looks for solace in all the wrong places but finally hits the Cosmic Jackpot! His path to Enlightenment, though, is littered with hurdles such as Born Again Baptists, first dates from Hell, spastics (that's a legitimate use of the word), magic, mystery schools, supply teaching, God, ETs, the Mothman, and other assorted karma, dharma, and drama. Cris is an explorer of psychic arenas and a cosmonaut of inner space, so join him if you dare but hang on to your Halo, the ride gets wild. If you like to get higher than Leary and more surreal than Burroughs, then you'll love this audiobook. Feel free to join Cris, he'd love your company, yes you, but get ready for a brain scrape and a mind upgrade. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael A. Adashefski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022748/bk_acx0_022748_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Space Dogs

  This fascinating book tells the story of the Soviet space dogs, illustrated with legendary photographer Martin Parr's vintage space-dog memorabilia.In the 1950s the space race between the USA and the USSR was well and truly on, and was for both a matter of pride and propaganda. But before man ventured into the cosmos, his four-legged friends would pave the way for space exploration.The first canine cosmonaut was Laika, meaning 'barker'. The little stray could never have anticipated that she would one day float 200 miles above the Moscow streets. She would be canonized as a proletarian hero, appearing on stamps, postcards and souvenirs. Her successors were Belka and Strelka, the first dogs to successfully return safely to Earth, and with them, the cult of the space dog was born.In a regime that eschewed celebrating individual achievement, the space dogs became Soviet superstars, with a vast array of merchandise, books and films in their honor.A must read for fans of Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina and Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989 by Moscow Design Museum.

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  The Path to Pride with Lance Bass and Nikki Levy, Hörbuch, Digital, 69min, (USK 18)

  Celebrate Pride with Lance Bass and Nikki Levy in this live storytelling special from Audible.Recorded live at the Los Angeles storytelling series Don't Tell My Mother, this special brings you heartwarming (and funny!) stories of coming out and being prideful.Co-hosted by *NSYNC heartthrob, Human Rights Campaign award winner, and cosmonaut Lance Bass along with producer and storyteller extraordinaire Nikki Levy, The Path to Pride is a joyful, hilarious romp down the rainbow brick road. You'll hear live stories from the stage from Frank DeCaro (The Daily Show, SiriusXM) about a high school crush who was the Bowie to his Elton John, Nikki's close (and we mean very close) relationship with her mom, and Zeke Smith (Survivor) tells the tale of his particularly public outing. Lance Bass brings it home with his story about being a teen pop star on the road with his darling (and super religious) mother, plus the turn of events years later which led to a life-changing People magazine feature.So, grab your headphones, let that rainbow flag fly and get ready for a PARTY! This is not your average tell-all or memoir about the LGBTQ+ journey. The only tears here are from laughter! Let it hang, bae-bay!Featuring stories told live on stage from the following performers: Frank DeCaro Nikki Levy Zeke Smith Lance Bass Language: English. Narrator: Lance Bass, Nikki Levy, Frank DeCaro, Zeke Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000167/or_orig_000167_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min

  An epic memoir from a man whose life is defined by exploration and innovation, The Sky Below re-creates some of the most unforgettable adventures of our time. From dramatic, high-risk spacewalks to author Scott Parazynski's death-defying quest to summit Mount Everest - his body ravaged by a career in space - listeners will experience the life of an elite athlete, physician, and explorer. This intimate, compelling account offers a rare portrait of space exploration from the inside. A global nomad raised in the shadow of NASA's Apollo missions, Parazynski never lost sight of his childhood dream to one day don a spacesuit and float outside the airlock. With deep passion, unbridled creativity, resilience, humility, and self-deprecation, Parazynski chases his dream of the ultimate adventure experience, again and again and again. In an era that transitioned from moon shots to the Space Shuttle, space station, and Mars research, Parazynski flies with John Glenn, tests jet packs, trains in Russia to become a cosmonaut, and flies five missions to outer space (including seven spacewalks) in his seventeen-year NASA career. An unparalleled, visceral opportunity to understand what it's like to train for - and deploy to - a home in zero gravity, The Sky Below also portrays an astronaut's engagement with the challenges of his life on Earth, including raising a beautiful autistic daughter and finding true love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Parazynski, Homer Hickam. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009344/bk_brll_009344_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1080min

  It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of moments less public but no less dramatic in the lives of those who made the golden age of space flight happen. These are the moments and the lives that Into That Silent Sea captures, a book that tells the intimate stories of the men and women, American and Russian, who made the space race their own and gave the era its compelling character. These minutes chronicle a varied and riveting cavalcade of human stories, including a look at Yuri Gagarin's harrowing childhood in war-ravaged Russia and Alan Shepard's firm purchase on the American dream. It also examines the controversial career of cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and the remarkable struggle and ultimate disappointment of her American counterparts. It tries to uncover the truth behind the allegations that shadowed Gus Grissom and Scott Carpenter and then allows the listener to share the heart-stopping suspense of Alexei Leonov's near-fatal first spacewalk. Through dozens of interviews and access to Russian and American official documents and family records, the authors bring to life the experiences that shaped the lives of the first astronauts and cosmonauts and forever changed their world and ours. The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Gagnepain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056898/bk_acx0_056898_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Stray Sod Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 547min

  It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey "Teddy" O'Neill is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his hair and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Skegness, England. Father Augustus Hand is working on a bold new theatrical production for Easter, which he, for one, knows will put Cullymore on the map. And, as the Manchester United football team prepares to take off from Munich airport, James A. Reilly sits in his hovel by the lake outside town, with his pet fox and his father's gun, feeling the weight of an insidious and inscrutable presence pressing down upon him. As these imperiled characters wrestle with their identities, a mysteriously powerful narrator plucks, gently, at the strings of their fates, and watches the twitching response. This novel is a devil's-eye view of a lost era, a sojourn to the dark side of our past, one we may not have come back from. With echoes of Peyton Place and Fellini's Amarcord, and with a sinister narrator at its heart, this is at once a story of a small town - with its secrets, fears, friendships, and betrayals - and a sweeping, theatrical extravagance from one of the finest writers of his generation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Doyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009724/bk_adbl_009724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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• The Cosmos Explained (eBook, ePUB)

  The Cosmos Explained is an exciting and beautifully designed book that charts the life of our universe from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond. Starting with the moment of the Big Bang-at exactly one ten-millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second-this book charts a history of space and time all the way through the evolution of our solar system, the birth of stars and the formation of life on Earth, to the future of our galaxy and beyond. With deeply insightful and fascinating text by Hayden Planetarium Associate Professor Charles Liu, who also hosts the immensely popular StarTalk podcast, this book is an accessible and enthralling gateway into the mysteries of space, time and the universe. Pinpoint exactly where you are in space and time using the timeline at the bottom of every page, and explore the history of the cosmos and the science behind it through beautiful telescope images and striking illustrations. Packaged in a unique retro design that reflects the 1960s cosmonaut era but still feels modern and relevant today, this title is as rich with information as it is with stunning visualisations of the concepts and bodies detailed within. An ideal gift for anyone interested in space or curious about the cosmos, The Cosmos Explained is a unique and entertaining timeline of life, the universe, and everything!

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  Planet Pluto: A Suspense Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 742min

  Winner of the Sci-fi Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize.An adventure three billion miles from Earth.On August 25, 2012, the Voyager 1 probe crossed into interstellar space. It contained a "golden record" with sounds, pictures, and greetings from Earth.On March 15, 2013, NASA received a transmission from the spacecraft that said: "Hello. We received your golden record. Let's meet."Now, internationally best-selling author B.C. Chase invites you on a daring first contact mission into deep space with five intrepid astronauts, one spunky cosmonaut, and a 75-year-old truck driver."Compulsively readable... Packed with mysteries and surprises... Enough detail to thrill fans of The Martian." (Hugo award-winning author Tim Pratt)Previously published as Pluto's Ghost. This edition, dedicated to the team that launched the New Horizons probe, contains an interview with the author from Publishers Weekly Booklife."Irreverent humor...Vivid...Memorable...As original as it can get." (Publishers Weekly critic)"Planet Pluto is a compulsively readable, twisty first-contact tale about a voyage from Earth to the edge of the solar system to meet mysterious aliens. The protagonist is an engagingly irascible elderly truck driver the aliens wanted along for reasons of their own, and his cranky-but-charming voice provides an excellent grounding for a tale full of physical, mechanical, and moral disasters. Planet Pluto is packed with mysteries and surprises, and filled with enough interesting engineering detail to thrill fans of The Martian." (Tim Pratt, best-selling author)"A fast-paced, exciting, and suspenseful thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Four of four stars." (Onlinebookclub.org)"Sometimes different is better. That's the case here.... Fast and fun." (The Oklahoman)"Chase has the raw talent for writing, and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Carlson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224599/bk_acx0_224599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: The Lives and Careers of the First Men on the Moon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 207min

  “I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.” (Neil Armstrong)“Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.” (Buzz Aldrin)At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, time stood still throughout the world, as thousands converged at the Kennedy Space Center and millions tuned in on live television. At that instant, the first rumbles began to shake the ground, as a small spacecraft attached to the giant Saturn V rocket, several hundred feet tall, started lifting off. Quickly being propelled several thousand miles per hour, it takes just a few minutes to reach a speed of 15,000 miles per hour, and just a few more minutes to enter orbit at 18,000 miles per hour. Apollo 11 was on its way to a historic first landing on the Moon.Apollo 11’s trip to the Moon may have started on that day in 1969, but the journey had begun over a decade earlier as part of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. In fact, President Eisenhower’s administration began the design for the Apollo program in 1960 in hopes of getting a head start to the Moon, despite the fact the plans originated a year before the first Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, orbited the Earth and two years before John Glenn did.Over the decade, NASA would spend tens of billions on the Apollo missions, the most expensive peacetime program in American history to that point, and even though Apollo 11 was only one of almost 20 Apollo missions, it was certainly the crown jewel, among all the missions conducted by NASA. When the Apollo program reached its pinnacle, the man at the center of it was Neil Armstrong, a farm boy and pilot who rose from a hardworking rural home to become the first to set foot on the Moon and utter one of the 20th century’s most famous phrases: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” After reaching the peak of his fame and career at the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156944/bk_acx0_156944_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Cosmonaut Keep

  Cosmonaut Keep - Engines of Light: Book One: ab 3.99 €

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