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<b>*Chosen as one of Amazon's Best Books of 2015!*<br /><br />The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission— told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.</b><br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /><i>Voyager 1 </i>left the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, <i>Voyager 2</i>, will do so in 2015. The fantastic journey began in 1977, before the first episode of <i>Cosmos</i> 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.<br /><br /> In <i>The Interstellar Age</i>, award-winning planetary scientist Jim Bell reveals what drove and continues to drive the members of this extraordinary team, including Ed Stone, <i>Voyager</i>’s chief scientist and