Titan is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter

2004: NASA'S CASSINI probe reaches Saturn, discovering evidence of life on the moon Titan and the amazing story of Titan begins ...

Thanks to one woman's will to succeed and the triumph of a dream over bureaucracy and fear, frail humans are hurled on a ten-year one-way trip to investigate evidence of life on Saturn's moon, Titan. Their ship is patched together from the remnants of fifty years of spaceflight, and they leave earth in the face of violent opposition from the military. Over the ten year journey the political situation worsens between China and America. As the crew near the edge of the solar system, news from earth brings them close to the edge of sanity ...