The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00SXCFB2E |
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| Number of Pages | : | 211 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Interesting, if Not Completely Thorough, Book on the Voyager Program" according to Frank L. Urbano. 'The Interstellar Age' is an account of the Voyager mission through the eyes of the author, Jim Bell. There is information in the book about Bell's education and early times in the planetary science field, and there is mention of many other individuals who were associated with the Voyager program. The first few chapters are essentially a historical introduction to the project, as well as discussions of Bell's early days. The middle of the book investigates the Voyagers individual visits to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune (the latter two were only visited by Voyager 2). The last section talks. J. Groen said Mankind's Successful Interstellar Travellers. This book clearly and effectively describes the Voyager I and II projects and the spaceships that are completing these trips. It starts with the description of the start of the projects and its rationale - for the only time in 175 years, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be lined up to allow one pass by space craft.The Voyager space craft were launched in the late 1970s and visited Jupiter and Saturn in the early and mid-1980s and Uranus and Neptune later in the decade. These were the space craft that viewed the moons, Titan and Europa up close, for the first time, and travell. Joseph Baneth Allen said Sagan's Heir!. has finished reading "The Interstellar Age - Inside The Forty-Year Voyager Mission" by Jim Bell, published by Dutton.Bell, who is s professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona Sate University, has written a a fascinating and in-depth look about his own love of space and how it lead him - much by luck, pluck, and circumstance, to become involved first as a student intern, and than as a graduate student, inside the Voyager missions to the outer planets and beyond.Expect no great revelations about how science works by committee when it comes to unmanned space exploration in th
The mission was planned as a grand tour beyond the moon; beyond Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; and maybe even into interstellar space. Voyager 1 left the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, will do so in 2015. Goode," will still be playable.. The fact that it actually happened makes this humanity's greatest space mission. Speeding through space at a mind-bending 11 miles a second, Voyager 1 is now beyond our solar system's planets. 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 after their launch. It carries with it artifacts of human civilization. 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 earthbound experience would prove of little help in interpreting the strange new landscapes revealed in the Voyagers' astoundingly clear images of moons and planets. The fantastic journey began in 1977,