Another intrepid voyager, Queen Mary 2, sails from Liverpool for Halifax and Boston, to recreate the first transatlantic crossing by a Cunard liner, Britannia, 175 years earlier.
We can all work in economy, if necessary, and even the weariest voyager should be able to regain their pep after a night's sleep.But on night-time long-haul flights, the argument is more nuanced.
Sceptre; £16.99 Six interlocking stories featuring the voices, among others, of a voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850 and a journalist in Governor Reagan's California.
He seems less the master of the orchestra than a fellow voyager, carried on the same tempestuous ride.
Likewise, the Cambridge Blue's extensive cask and keg line-up includes beers as traditional as Tydd Steam's highly drinkable Swedish Blonde, wheat beers brewed in Essex (Mighty Oak's Head In The Clouds), craft beers from New Zealand (I found Renaissance's Voyager IPA a little sweet), and such exotica as a chilli-infused black IPA from Peterborough's buccaneering craft outfit Bexar County.
In 1989 Voyager 2 flashed past Triton, which is now the largest moon of Neptune, but probably began life as a dwarf much like Pluto before falling under the deep blue planet's sway.
IN 1990 Voyager took a photograph of Earth that was striking precisely because it showed so little.
More recently, thermogenerators that obtain their heat from the radioactive decay of plutonium have been used in spacecraft such as the Voyager probes.
The twin Voyager space probes, launched in 1977, each carried a "Golden Record" with Earthly sounds such as greetings in 56 languages (and by a whale), as well as a tune by Chuck Berry.
OUR correspondents look at the on-going feud between Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, the rise of 3D printing and driverless cars, and whether NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is about to leave the solar system.
The Great Dark Spot seen by Voyager 2, a probe which investigated the planet in 1989, disappeared within a year.
