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— U.S.$26.00 Can.$38.50 In Journey Beyond Selene, Jeffrey Kluger brings to life an unheralded band of cutting-edge space explorers with their own stunning brand of the right stuff. He has written an adventure story that is — full of drama, danger, and triumph the story of the men and women who have taken us to the ends of the solar system. he spaceships are flying. The most ambi- tious, most thrilling expeditions in history l are under way, exploring worlds billions of miles from Earth. In Journey Beyond Selene, bestselling author Jeffrey Kluger tells for the first time the fascinating story of the people who are making these voyages of discovery — happen the daring, determined, and brilliant men and women of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL's scientists and engineers have been on the cutting edge of exploration for more than forty years, hammering together unmanned spaceships, mounting them atop rockets, and — flinging them not just to our own moon the — nearby world the Greeks called Selene but to the ends ofthe solar system. In the course oftheir journeys, these robot spacecraft have visited seven of the eight other planets and more important-^the sparkling swarms of multicolored moons that circle them. What they've found is astonishing. In addition to discovering many more moons than astronomers thought existed, JPL scientists have found these worlds to be stranger than anyone imagined.Their fanciful — names Ophelia, Europa, Despina, Titania, Pandora, Pan, Puck—only hint at their fantas- tic nature.They are worlds where volcanoes spew glittering snow, rivers run with scalding ammonia, geysers spout carbonated water, fires burn on one moon and dust the cliffs of (continued on back flap) Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/journeybeyondselOOklug ± Also byJeffrey Kluger Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage ofApollo 13 (with Jim Lovell; published in paperback as Apollo 13) The Apollo Adventure Journey Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System Beyond SeL ene Jeffrey Kluger Simon & Schuster A SIMON & SCHUSTER Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue ofthe Americas NewYork,NewYork 10020 Copyright© 1999 byJeffrey Kluger All rights reserved includingthe right ofreproduction inwhole or inpartin any form. SIMON & SCHUSTER and colophon areregistered trademarks & ofSimon SchusterInc. Designed by Deirdre C. Amthor Manufactured in theUnited States ofAmerica 987654321 10 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kluger,Jeffrey. Journey beyond Selene remarkable expeditions pastourmoon and to the ends : ofthe solar system/JeffreyKluger. p. cm. Includes index.— — — 1.—Space probes —History. 2. Space flight History. 3. Outer space Explo- ration United States History. I. Title. TL795.3.K58 1999 629.43'54—DC21 99-14149 CIP ISBN 0-684-84765-5 Photo Credits Insertpages 1-3, 6-8:JetPropulsion Laboratory, NASA Insertpages 4-5:NASA
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