Год выпуска: 2015 Автор: BELL, JIM Издательство: Страниц: ISBN: 9780525954323
Описание
The fantastic journey beyond our solar system began in 1977 before the first episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos aired. This was the mission that was planned as a grand tour going beyond the moon, beyond Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and at the time, who knew, maybe beyond the furthest planet and into interstellar space. That it actually happened is what makes it humanity's greatest space mission. Jim Bell reveals what drove and continues to drive the members of this extraordinary, inspiring team such as Ed Stone, Voyager's chief scientist and the one-time head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab; Charlie Kohlhase, an orbital dynamics engineer who helped to design many of the critical flyby maneuvers that the spacecraft would use to get amazing images of each planet's atmosphere, moons, and rings yet still slingshot on to their next destination; Ed Danielson, a crafty planetary scientist and engineer who had worked on a number of previous NASA robotic missions and who helped build and operate Voyager's...
