Download Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight AudioBook Free
Award-winning science writer and documentarian Fishing rod Pyle presents an insider's point of view on the most unconventional and bizarre space missions ever before devised inside and outside of NASA. The amazing projects explained here weren't merely plane tickets of fancy imagined up by space fanatics, but real missions designed by leading aeronautical technical engineers. Some were designed but not built; others were built but not flown; and some were flown to failure but little reported: A huge rocket that could use atomic bombs as propulsion (never brain the fallout), military bases on the moon that can target enemies on the planet with nuclear weapons, a structure to spray-paint the lenses of Soviet spy satellites in space, the rushed Soyuz 1 spacecraft that concluded with the fatality of its pilot, the near-disaster of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the inexplicable Russian space shuttle that flew only one time and was then scrapped - they are are just some of the unbelievable tales that Pyle has within once top-secret documents as well as accounts that were simply lost for most decades. These stories describe a time when nothing was too off-the-wall to be studied very seriously, and the race to the moon and the risk from the Soviet Union trumped all other considerations.
