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What Stars Are Made Of
- The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Written by: Donovan Moore, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - foreword
- Narrated by: Donovan Moore, Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early 20th-century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to become a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, the first promoted to full professor at Harvard, the first to head a department there. And, in what has been called "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy", she was the first to describe what stars are made of.
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What Stars Are Made Of
- The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Narrated by: Donovan Moore, Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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Dante and the Early Astronomer
- Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
- Written by: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the 20th century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars.
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Dante and the Early Astronomer
- Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 23-04-19
- Language: English
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Safely to Earth
- The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home
- Written by: Jack Clemons
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons - a former lead engineer in support of NASA - takes listeners behind the scenes and into the inner workings of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs during their most exciting years. Discover the people, the events, and the risks involved in one of the most important parts of space missions: bringing the astronauts back home to Earth. Clemons joined Project Apollo in 1968, a young engineer inspired by science fiction and electrified by John F. Kennedy's challenge to the nation to put a man on the moon.
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Safely to Earth
- The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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