{"product_id":"9780143119593","title":"Voyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Blooms with such glorious rushes of exalted prose that I was dog- earing almost every page.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs debate over the future of NASA heats up, award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne presents America's greatest space expeditions as the latest chapter in a continuous saga of discovery that goes back centuries. Pyne's luminous narrative not only recounts the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions, launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets, but also fixes their place in Western civilization's urge to explore-an impulse that links NASA's scientists with Magellan, Columbus, Cook, Lewis and Clark, and other intrepid seekers through the ages. Pyne's eye-opening look at what he calls the third age of discovery \"reminds readers of the rich cultural history that underlies humankind's exploration of the cosmos\" (\u003ci\u003eScience News\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049227174128,"sku":"9780143119593","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143119593_p0.jpg?v=1763656876","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143119593","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}