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After Babel

Books-
I forgot to mention it in the episode since the book is experienced more than it is read. Apollo Remastered by Andy Saunders is a visual delight. 1000% recommend picking up a copy.
"Soviets in Space" by Colin Burgess
"Space Craze" by Margaret Weitekamp
"The Space Shuttle" by Roland Miller
"Son of Apollo" by Christopher Roosa
"The New Guys" by Meredith Bagby
"The Map that Changed the World" by Simon Winchester
"Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens" by Andrea Wulf
"Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" by Neil Postman
"Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America" by Brendan Ballou
"Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World" by Marcia Bjornerud
"Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology" by Neil Postman
"Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives" by Siddarth Kara
"Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945" by Thomas G. Mahnken
"The Winged Gospel" by Joseph Corn
"Wichita: Where Aviation Took Wing" by the Greteman Group
"The Arsenal of Democracy" by A.J. Baime
"Farnsworth's Classical English Style" by Ward Farnsworth
"The Practicing Stoic" by Ward Farnsworth
"The Daily Stoic" by Ryan Holiday
"The Daily Dad" by Ryan Holiday
"Code Red" by Vince Flynn/Kyle Mills
"And on that Bombshell" by Richard Porter
"Nuts and Bolts" by Roma Agrawal
"Come Fly with Me: The Rise and Fall of TWA" by Daniel L. Rust and Alan B. Hoffman
"Hands of Time" by Rebecca Struthers

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The Age of Radiance by Craig Nelson The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

Wingless Flight by R Dale Reed. Give the full PDF a read via NASA History.
R Dale Reed NASA Biography- https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/X-Press/50th_anniversary/driving_forces/driving_forces_p-r.html

Mayday Over Wichita by D.W. Carter Mayday Over Wichita: The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History (Hardcover)
Piatt St. Park- https://www.wichita.gov/ParkandRec/CityParks/Pages/Piatt.aspx

The Age of Eisenhower- by William Hitchcock The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
Uravan Colorado- http://www.uravan.com/

Project Orion-
Death of a Project, by Freeman Dyson- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.149.3680.141
Book- Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
Nuclear Pulse Propulsion: Orion and Beyond- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20000096503

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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery