The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

The story of the men and women who drove NASAâ€™s Voyager spacecraft missionâ€”the farthest-flung emissaries of planet Earthâ€”told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.

Voyager 1 left the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, did 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, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; and maybe even into interstellar space. The fact that it actually happened makes this humanityâ€™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, Voyagerâ€™s chief scientist and the one-time head of NASAâ€™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 Voyagersâ€™ astoundingly clear images of moons and planets.

Speeding through space at a mind-bending eleven miles a second, Voyager 1 is now beyond our solar system's planets. It carries with it artifacts of human civilization. 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 Berryâ€™s â€œJohnny B. Goode,â€ will still be playable.

*An ALA Notable Book of 2015*
Country USA
Manufacturer Dutton
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-02-24
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Dutton
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-02-24
Format	Kindle eBook

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

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