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> The scientists who undertook this project knew it was the next generation that would benefit from the knowledge. It's not such a black-and-white deal. The p
by Denvercoder9 6y ago
> The scientists who undertook this project knew it was the next generation that would benefit from the knowledge.
It's not such a black-and-white deal. The primary mission of the Voyagers was to study the outer planets, which it completed in ~12 years after launch. The studies on Jupiter and Saturn were already finished 5 years after launch.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoAnother thing I find interesting is that quite a few of the people working on Voyager have been there for 30+ years. I really enjoyed this article about Voyager and the people who work on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engineers-steering-nasas-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engine...