Praise for "The Interstellar Age " "In THE INTERSTELLAR AGE Professor Jim Bell celebrates Voyager -- NASA's most famous space probe. In this task, Bell not only shines as a leading planetary scientist, you get the sneaky feeling he knew the probe personally, serving in this case as Voyager's personal biographer to the benefit of us all." --Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, host of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," author of "Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier" "Come along with Dr. Bell on an extraordinary adventure. He loves to travel. He relishes a long voyage. He doesn't mind leaving home forever and never coming back. If it involves a once in lifetime journey through the cold emptiness of space, so much the better, as long as the ports of call are planets--up close and personal. These voyages changed what we know of the cosmos and our place within it. Jim Bell's story will change you, too." --Bill Nye, CEO, the Planetary Society ""The Interstellar Age" is dawning and this book recounts the saga of humanity's greatest solar system exploration on the way out. Part scientific autobiography, part top-notch science writing, Jim Bell's book is a welcome addition to the history of the Voyager Missions." --Jon Lomberg, space artist, science journalist, and co-creator of the Voyager Interstellar Record "Everyone loves Voyager, and every few years the plucky spacecraft give us yet another reason to remind us why. Now that Voyager 1 has passed beyond the veil of the helioshere and plunged into interstellar space, Jim Bell takes up the narrative of what that mission has meant and makes his personal relationship, which dates from his days as a student, stand for the near-universal bond most of us feel. A timely, humane, and informative read." --Stephen Pyne, historian, and author of "Voyager: Seeking New Worlds in the Third Great Age of Exploration " "The space mission that turned points of light into worlds... the Grandest Tour ... Voyager. Over 35 years after it was launched, it's now sending back data from beyond our solar system. Live the incredible adventure in Jim Bell's personal yet sweeping and comprehensive account, the story of one of the greatest explorations in history and the extraordinary people who made it happen." -- Andrew Chaikin, author of""A Man on the Moon "and "A Passion for Mars""

Jim Bell is currently a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, an adjunct professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, and president of The Planetary Society. He and teammates have received more than a dozen NASA Group Achievement Awards for work on space missions, and he was the recipient of the 2011 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society, for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences. He is a frequent contributor to popular astronomy and science magazines like "Sky & Telescope," "Astronomy," and "Scientific American," and to radio shows and internet blogs about astronomy and space. He has appeared on television on the NBC "Today" show, on CNN's "This American Morning," on the PBS "NewsHour," and on the Discovery, National Geographic, Wall St. Journal, and History Channels. He is the author of "Postcards from Mars."