The interstellar age : inside the forty-year Voyager mission
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- ISBN: 0525954325
- ISBN: 9780525954323
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Physical Description:
x, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: New York, New York : Dutton, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Outbound -- Alignment. Voyagers ; Gravity assist ; Message in a bottle -- The Grand Tour. New worlds among the king's court ; Drama within the rings ; Bull's-eye at a tilted world ; Last of the ice giants -- Looking back, looking ahead. Five billion people per pixel ; The edge of interstellar space ; Other stars, other planets, other life -- NewSpace. |
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The Interstellar Age : Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
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The Interstellar Age : Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
Voyager 1 left the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, will do so in 2015. The fantastic journey began in 1977, before the first episode of Cosmos aired. The mission was planned as a grand tour beyond the moon; beyond Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; and maybe even into interstellar space. The fact that it actually happened makes this humanity's greatest space mission. In The Interstellar Age, award-winning planetary scientist Jim Bell reveals what drove and continues to drive the members of this extraordinary team.