The interstellar age : inside the forty-year Voyager mission
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New York, New York : Dutton, [2015?].
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x, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Pueblo West Branch - ADULTNONFIC
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Published
New York, New York : Dutton, [2015?].
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Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.
Description
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, 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 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--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bell, J. (2015). The interstellar age: inside the forty-year Voyager mission . Dutton.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bell, Jim, 1965-. 2015. The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-year Voyager Mission. Dutton.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bell, Jim, 1965-. The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-year Voyager Mission Dutton, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bell, Jim. The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-year Voyager Mission Dutton, 2015.
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