Voyager: An Adventure to the Edge of the Solar System

by Sally Ride, Tam O'Shaughnessy

Full-color photographs from the NASA files. Astronaut Sally Ride describes one of NASA's greatest accomplishments: the 12-year interplanetary flight of the Voyager space probes. Ride gives an insider's account of the mission, the spacecraft, and some of their truly remarkable discoveries—including previously unseen rings around the planets and unsuspected volcanoes on the solar system's moons.

36 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Dr. Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951–July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987.

Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the only person to participate in both. Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012.

Reviews

[Jacklyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing, I can not stop bringing this book to class and reading it over and over and over and over, I love seeing all the pictures in the book and all the facts, this book actually made me pull out my brothers VERY old telescope and look into the stars, I could not find anything but I would not give up just like NASA they would not give up on trying to get the voyager into deeper space and finding more planets. Also I did not know that Neptune had rings AT ALL! On pictures on google Neptune does int have rings but when I read this book, the voyager took a picture of Neptune and showed it had Rings. The only thing I disliked about this book was the book was short. I was hoping they would show Pluto but they did not. Otherwise it was a good book. I even brought this book to science once and when the science teacher asks us questions I sometimes answer it from my book. I love space its so interesting and this book made space more interesting than before. In science we learned about the golden record and I got so hooked to it that I want to learn more. So when I looked at this book at the library it talked about the golden record one the last page! The book also explained the astronauts are going back to space! But sadly we have to wait till 2030.... but I still can't wait for NASA to bring the astronauts back! The book also showed some good history topics every planet they talked about they added a back story from how they were made and they showed such detailed pictures I could not turn away! Sometimes in the book their were tricky words, WORDS I did not even know but membean always helps me with that. The book also helped me not to write summaries reading these types of books can help you not to just write a summary but something more. This book also helped me in my language arts with the words the writing and the facts. It's such a great book I can't stop writing about it I recommend you reading the book and hit that rate button trust me you will enjoy it.

[Stream Academy Lending Library]

This book was generously donated to STREAM Academy by Westinghouse Electric Company & the Girls, Math & Science Partnership.

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Visually amazing and signed by Sally Ride to boot! Kids will love this!