The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Bell, Jim
The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Bell, Jim

The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

The story of the men and women who drove NASA's Voyager spacecraft mission--the farthest-flung emissaries of planet...
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The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Bell, Jim

The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

$38.50
The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Bell, Jim

The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

$38.50
Author: Jim Bell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The story of the men and women who drove NASA's Voyager spacecraft mission--the farthest-flung emissaries of planet Earth--told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.

Voyager 1 left our solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, did so in 2018. 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, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; 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, including Ed Stone, Voyager's chief scientist and the one-time head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab; Charley Kohlhase, an orbital dynamics engineer who helped to design many of the critical slingshot maneuvers around planets that enabled the Voyagers to travel so far; and the geologist whose Earth-bound experience would prove of little help in interpreting the strange new landscapes revealed in the Voyagers' astoundingly clear images of moons and planets.

Speeding through space at a mind-bending eleven miles a second, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are now beyond our solar system's planets, the first man-made objects to go interstellar. By the time Voyager passes its first star in about 40,000 years, the gold record on the spacecraft, containing various music and images including Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," will still be playable.

*An ALA Notable Book of 2015*

Author: Jim Bell
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 01/19/2016
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781101983898

About the Author
Jim Bell is currently a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, an adjunct professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, and president of The Planetary Society. He and his teammates have received more than a dozen NASA Group Achievement Awards for work on space missions, and he was the recipient of the 2011 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society, for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences. He is a frequent contributor to popular astronomy and science magazines like Sky & Telescope, Astronomy, and Scientific American, and to radio shows and internet blogs about astronomy and space. He has appeared on television on the NBC Today show, on CNN's This American Morning, on the PBS NewsHour, and on the Discovery, National Geographic, Wall St. Journal, and History Channels. He is the author of Postcards from Mars.


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