Voyager: An Adventure to the Edge of the Solar System (Face to Face With Science) - Hardcover

Ride, Sally; Tam O'Shaughnessy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517581574 ISBN 13: 9780517581575

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Libraries with a healthy demand for books on the solar system will find this a good addition to the collection."--Booklist.

About the Author:

SALLY RIDE has been interested in science since she was a child. She earned bachelor's degrees in physics and English and a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. In 1983 she became the first American woman to fly in space, when she made a six-day flight aboard the space shuttle Challenger. She made her second trip into space in 1984. Dr. Ride is now a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. She is also founder of Sally Ride Science, a company that creates innovative programs and publications for young people interested in science.

TAM O'SHAUGHNESSY and Sally Ride have been friends since they were teens competing in junior tennis tournaments. Dr. O'Shaughnessy holds a master's degree in biology and a Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of California, Riverside. She is a professor of school psychology at San Diego State University. Tam and Sally have written four other children's science books including The Third Planet: Exploring The Earth From Space, winner of the American Institute of Physics Children's Science Writing Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0517581574
• ISBN 13: 9780517581575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 36