Voyager Tales

Personal Views of the Grand Tour

• Author(s): David W. Swift,
• Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Pages: 438
• ISBN_10: 156347252X
  ISBN_13: 9781563472527
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Space Science / Astronomy , Science / Space Science / Space Exploration , Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics , Technology & Engineering / Engineering (General) , Technology & Engineering / History ,

Description:... Foreword by Norman R. Augustine In 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 journeyed to the outer planets, gathering information about Jupiter and Saturn, sending scientists on Earth their first close-up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, and collecting a series of images of the sun and its planets. Twenty years later, Voyager Tales presents a collection of interviews from a cross section of the professionals involved in all aspects of the mission. Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour provides insights into the development of a major research project from the personal perspectives of the people who helped design, build, and fly the two spacecraft. Readers will use this book as a case study of a project that not only was highly successful, operating on time and on budget, but far surpassed its initial goals.