
Chasing New Horizons
Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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Narrateur(s):
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Alan Stern
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David Grinspoon
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Auteur(s):
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Alan Stern
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David Grinspoon
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This audiobook is the up-close inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.
On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than three billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long-mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation - a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune - and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again.
The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all seven continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than two billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen?
Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, one billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting story of scientific discovery and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.
©2018 Alan Stern and David Grinspooon (P)2018 Macmillan AudioAn amazing and inspiring book
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This audiobook is performed excellently by the authors.
I can't wait to see what New Horizons can show us next.
Incredible
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I had the pleasure and honor to meet Alan Stern last year at an event unrelated to space, but I was fortuitous enough to hear him talk about this mission to a small group of people, and his passion for space and especially this mission had me put this book on my list, and I have only just now had the chance to listen to it, I only started listening a few days ago, I couldn't hit stop.
Thank you to Alan Stern and David Grinspoon for writing and narrating this book, and thank you to the whole team of people who made this mission the resounding success it is/was.
A MUST READ/LISTEN
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