The interstellar age : inside the forty-year Voyager mission / Jim Bell.
The interstellar age : inside the forty-year Voyager mission / Jim Bell.
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Publisher
New York, New York : Dutton, 2015.
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G 2016/306
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English
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Physical content
x, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Outbound -- Alignment. Voyagers ; Gravity assist ; Message in a bottle -- The Grand Tour. New worlds among the king's court ; Drama within the rings ; Bull's-eye at a tilted world ; Last of the ice giants -- Looking back, looking ahead. Five billion people per pixel ; The edge of interstellar space...
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New York, New York : Dutton, 2015.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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"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, Voyage...
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The interstellar age : inside the forty-year Voyager mission / Jim Bell.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.
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G 2016/306
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74VKzKJo7gzX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzKJo7gzX
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ISBN
0525954325 (hardback)
9780525954323 (hardback)
DDC
919.9204
MMS ID
991023404469702626