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I was just a tad young to care when the voyager spacecraft were first launched, but I have followed the adventures of these spacecraft since the mid 80s. I rem
by efitz 3y ago
I was just a tad young to care when the voyager spacecraft were first launched, but I have followed the adventures of these spacecraft since the mid 80s. I remember being a little disappointed in the “Neptune all night” TV special during the flyby as the whole night they only received one photo and didn’t have time to colorize it :-D
But I have always been inspired by the ingenuity of the engineers in first designing spacecraft that have lasted so long and gone so far beyond their original mission parameters, and secondly keeping these two machines operational across so much time and distance in such a hostile environment.
Thank you Voyager team present and past; you’ve helped inspire so many young people to STEM careers, and you’ve done so with a project that shows the very best of the curious and inventive side of humanity.
- gedy 3y ago> I remember being a little disappointed in the “Neptune all night” TV special during the flyby as the whole night they only received one photo I remember waiting for the next month's National Geographic to include the next planet Voyager visited. Joys of the pre Internet era.
- palijer 3y agoHere is my favorite article about the engineers and team behind the mission still. 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...
- efitz 3y agoThat was a great article. Archive here: https://archive.ph/QftwM https://archive.ph/QftwM