Schmidt, Bryan Thomas (ed) - Mission: Tomorrow / Шмидт, Брайан Томас (ред) - Назначение: завтра [2015, EPUB, ENG]

Tombaugh Station short story by Robin Wayne Bailey Excalibur short story by Jack McDevitt The Race for Arcadia short story by Alex Shvartsman A Walkabout Amongst the Stars short story by Lezli Robyn Sunrise on Mercury / Восход на Меркурии short story by Robert Silverberg In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon short story by Michael F. Flynn The Ultimate Space Race short story by Jaleta Clegg Orpheus' Engines novelette by Christopher McKitterick Around the NEO in 80 Days short story by Jay Werkheiser Iron Pegasus short story by Brenda Cooper Airtight short story by Michael Capobianco Windshear short story by Angus McIntyre On Edge short fiction by Sarah A. Hoyt Tartaros short story by Mike Resnick Malf short story by David D. Levine Ten Days Up short fiction by Curtis C. Chen The Rabbit Hole / Кроличья нора novelette by James E. Gunn Rare (Off) Earth Elements short story by Ben Bova Tribute short story by Jack Skillingstead

The Snowden revelations had been out for several years, dumping one major story after another into the news cycle. But the bombshell didn’t show up until Gordon Kerr, who was working on his seventh book, a history of the space agency, noticed that one relatively insignificant report showed a conversation in which someone at NASA commented that “Bancroft says it’s a go. Get it moving.” Bancroft at the time was one of NASA’s senior operational directors. The intercept was dated August 28, 1989. Gordon had been surprised to discover that the NSA was scooping up communications of government agencies. But he would have thought no more of this one except that the date rang a bell. He needed a minute to put it together: Voyager 2 was passing Neptune and leaving the solar system. Bancroft, unfortunately, had died two years earlier. “Did it have anything to do with Voyager?” he asked Tom Morrison, his long-time friend and the director at the Jet Propulsion Lab. . . .