The interstellar age : inside the forty-year Voyager mission

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The interstellar age : inside the forty-year Voyager mission

Title remainder

inside the forty-year Voyager mission

Statement of responsibility

Jim Bell

Creator

• Bell, Jim, 1965-

Subject

• Astronautics
• Exploration of outer space
• Exploration of outer space
• History
• History
• Narrative non-fiction
• Outer space
• Outer space
• Outer space -- Exploration
• Planets -- Exploration
• Planets -- Exploration
• Aeronautics
• Raumfahrt
• SCIENCE -- Astronomy
• SCIENCE -- Astrophysics & Space Science
• Sonnensystem
• United States
• Voyager
• Voyager Project
• Voyager Project
• Planets. -- Exploration

Genre

• Narrative non-fiction
• History

Language

eng

Summary

The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission -- told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries -- 11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch. 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, 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 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 Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," will still be playable

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

919.9/204

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

QB601

LC item number

.B45 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography