Name: The interstellar age
ISBN: 9780525954323

The interstellar age

"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, Voyager 2, will do so in 2015. 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, and Saturn; 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 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 Earth-bound experience would prove of little help in interpreting the strange new landscapes revealed in the Voyagers' astoundingly clear images of moons and planets. Speeding through space at a mind-bending eleven miles a second, Voyager 1 is now beyond our solar system's planets. It carries with it artifacts of human civilization.

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== Case studies (US government) ==

T-6A TEXAN II Systems Engineering Case Study - Derivative of PC-9 Pilatus Aircraft - JPATS Program, Training System, Hawker Beechcraft History (World Spaceflight News, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Military, U.S. Air Force (USAF) )

Theater Battle Management Core System Systems Engineering Case Study - History and Details of TBMCS Integrated Air Command and Control System (U.S. Military, Air Force (USAF), U.S. , of Technology, Air Force Institute , Spaceflight News, World , Defense (DoD), Department of , Systems Engineering, Air Force)

Global Positioning System (GPS) Systems Engineering Case Study - Technical Information and Program History of America's NAVSTAR Navigation Satellites (World Spaceflight News, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Military, U.S. Air Force (USAF))

== Aeronautics ==

The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft: From Concept to Flight - XV-3 Program, Stability Issues, Army and Navy Participation, VTOL, Flight Research Incidents and Crash, V-22 Osprey (U.S. Government, Space Administration (NASA), National Aeronautics and, Spaceflight News (WSN), World Spaceflight)

Bell X-1 (Peter E. Davies)

North American XB-70 Valkyrie (X-Planes Book 7) (Peter E. Davies)

Aviation Psychology: Practice and Research (Goeters, Klaus-Martin)

== Space ==

The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Emily Lakdawalla)

The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation (Adam Steltzner, William Patrick)

Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (Rob Manning, William L. Simon)

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Alan Stern, David Grinspoon)

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (David A. Mindell)

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Jim Bell)

== Astronomy ==

The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope (Ronald Florence)

== Process ==

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)

NASA Lessons Learned in Engineering: Marshall Engineers Recount Problems and Solutions on Saturn V Rocket, Apollo, Space Shuttle, SSME, Hubble Space Telescope, X-33, Other Vehicles and Systems (U.S. Government, Space Administration (NASA), National Aeronautics and, Spaceflight News (WSN))

== For myself ==

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== If you have children ==

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives (William Stixrud, Ned Johnson)

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