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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was very eager to read this book, as I believe the Voyager story is amazing. However the author goes to great lengths to compare the voyager mission to earlier missions of disovery, and so much of the book is taken up with descriptions of explorations I was already aware of. I was hoping for more about how the idea for the mission came about, the detail of the instrumentation and the sheer incredible achievement of realising a project when the technology needed didn't really exist. I still think there is a great book to be written about Voyager, how it came about, how it was realised, its trials and tribulations, the impact that the pictures and data it returned have had and continue to have on the world. Sadly , I felt to much of this book was taken up with the thesis of "the third age of Discovery", rather than just telling the Voyager story. One example is that the author jumps pretty much from the final deciasion to go ahead with the project to the launch. It was during this period that decisions regarding the instrumentation to be used, the type of camera, the power source etc were made, it was these decisions that made Voyager the great success it was and still is, and I want to know more about the how and why.
That said, it's great that Voyager is still in the public mind, and continues to send back information from so far away. I believe Voyager is amoungst the greatest man-made objects of all time.
That said, it's great that Voyager is still in the public mind, and continues to send back information from so far away. I believe Voyager is amoungst the greatest man-made objects of all time.
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Misses the Mark...Needs a mid-course Correction!
3 Aug 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Born in 1949, I grew up with Sputnik and Apollo and Voyager. I wanted very much to love this book. Only about half the book is actually about Voyager. The rest is philosophical meanderings on earlier ages of exploration. Perhaps I was just impatient but I really just wanted to know everything I coulld about Voyager. It is very well written but that just makes the missed potential that much more wistful. If Voyager had wandered around this much, it would have never made it past the asteroid belt!
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Moderately interesting history
28 July 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really wanted to like this book as the history and science of unmanned space exploration can be an interesting one. But I felt like I've largely been down this road before via Carl Sagan's ground-breaking book Cosmos. While the author provides some interesting information on the two Voyager space probes and their journeys to the outer planets I didn't really learn much of anything new. I would recommend this book to a high school science student who was new to the topic of space exploration. But for anyone who has followed planetary exploration for a while I'd say there are better books and sources of information on the web.
22 of 27 people found the following review helpful
VOYAGER wanders around
30 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
The big has some interesting ideas and tidbits, but it dashes from one subject to another too much. For example, the author tells us that the story of Henry the Navigator was a myth, but he doesn't tell us what he thought really happened. He mentioned Uranus's peculiarities several times without what saying what they are (fortunately I read about them in another book). Too much of the book is dominated by false comparisons with Europe's two ages of conquest. A better analogy would have been the Chinese expeditions under Cheng Ho, organized by a wealthy nation to show off his success, and cancelled when the money ran low. Some interesting diagrams in back, but I would have been most interested in seeing a diagram of the satellite itself. Perhaps a second edition with more focus would be a good idea.
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