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I have a special place in my heart for the Voyagers. They were launched just a few weeks after I was born, so I never have to remember how long they've been fl
by jedberg 2y ago
I have a special place in my heart for the Voyagers. They were launched just a few weeks after I was born, so I never have to remember how long they've been flying.
And when I was 9 or 10, I took a tour of JPL. They sent me home with an envelope of about 300 8x10 pictures, many of which were from the Voyager missions (but no Neptune pics because it hadn't gotten there yet!).
Those pictures decorated my walls until I left for college.
I'll be sad when they finally shut down the last instruments and the Voyagers go silent, speeding through space with a message of peace.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoYup, and “pale blue dot.” Knew I wanted to work in that field at ~7 and ~47, but somehow forgot at ~17. Guess I didn’t appreciate at the time how computers and internet would work their way into everything. Believe/thought I needed to become a physicist, an interesting subject but not as a career.