Download The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission AudioBook Free
The account of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft objective, told by the scientist who was simply there right from the start. The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries--11.3 billion a long way from the staff who built and still operate them decades after their launch. Voyager 1 kept the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, can do so in 2015. The great journey started out in 1977, prior to the first episode of Cosmos aired. The objective was designed as a grand tour beyond the moon; beyond Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; and maybe even into interstellar space. The actual fact which it actually happened makes this humanity's very best space mission. In The Interstellar Era, award-winning planetary scientist Jim Bell discloses what drove and goes on to drive the members of this amazing team, including Ed Stone, Voyager's chief scientist and the one-time mind of NASA's Aircraft Propulsion Lab; Charley Kohlhase, an orbital dynamics engineer who helped to create lots of the critical slingshot maneuvers around planets that empowered the Voyagers to travel up to now; and the geologist whose earthbound experience would prove of little help in interpreting the strange new landscapes discovered in the Voyagers' astoundingly clear images of moons and planets. Speeding through space at a mind-bending 11 a long way another, Voyager 1 is now beyond our solar system's planets. It bears with it artifacts of human civilization. By the time Voyager 1 goes by its first celebrity in about 40,000 years, the gold record on the spacecraft, comprising various music and images, including Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," it's still playable.
