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Chasing New Horizons
- Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
- Narrated by: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Clemens
- 25-05-2018
Must read for space exploration enthusiasts
A great book covering the New Horizons mission from conception to the Pluto flyby. Particularly interesting are the behind the scenes politics within NASA and personal egos that influence the selection of who is going to fly to Pluto. I am sure some will be miffed about what was written about them... A fabulous account by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon. All that is left to say is good luck for the KBO encounter, but with a team like this luck is secondary....
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-08-2019
WOW
An amazing story so beautifully articulated. Awesome to hear a story of something I followed so closely. Can't wait for the future of New Horizons.
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- Nicola Bury
- 15-11-2018
This book gave me so many chills I though I was having a stroke
Hearing the story of the little space probe that could was truely amazing and genuinely moving. Having the book be narrated by the authors thus hearing the story straight from the horses mouth also make it feel that much more special
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- Daryn
- 31-05-2018
Great material but not well narrated.
This is the classic case where the authors should have employed a professional narrator for the audiobook rather than attempt it themselves.
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- enaid
- 08-06-2018
Exciting and informative
This was an exciting, true story that was really enjoyable to listen to as I learned new things about our solar system.
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