Voyager : to the final frontier / directed and produced by Chris Riley.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Riley, Christopher, 1967- Director, Producer.

British Broadcasting Corporation., Production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyager Project.

Outer space--Exploration.

Outer space.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 min.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

This is the story of the most extraordinary journey in human exploration, the Voyager space mission. In 1977 two unmanned spacecraft were launched by NASA, heading for distant worlds. It would be the first time any man-made object would ever visit the farthest planets of the solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. On the way the Voyagers would be bombarded by space dust, fried by radiation and discover many of the remarkable wonders of the solar system.At the end of 2012, 35 years and 11 billion miles later, they are leaving the area of the sun's influence. As they journey out into the galaxy beyond they carry a message from Earth, a golden record bolted to the side of each craft describing our civilization in case of discovery by another. This is the definitive account of the most intrepid explorers in Earth's history.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 21, 2014).

OCLC:

904566226