Voyager Tales : Personal Views of the Grand Tour

Swift, David W./ Augustine, Norman R. (FRW)

American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics（1997/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 480 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781563472527
• DDC分類 629.455

Full Description

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. This volume 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 spacecrafts. 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.

Contents

Overview; Pathfinders; Project Managers; Laboratory Directors; Engineers; Scientists; Support Services; Conclusions; Appendices - Voyager Chronology, Science Experiments, and Glossary.