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Jim Bell

The Interstellar Age

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

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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 d… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-101-98389-8
  • EAN: 9781101983898
  • Produktnummer: 18917884
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.0 cm 259 g
  • Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
  • Gewicht: 259

Über den Autor


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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