Voyager... thirty-three years old, and still 'doing it'.

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Voyager... thirty-three years old, and still 'doing it'.

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Voyager's endurance still amazes me.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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You've got to hand it to NASA for the Voyager missions ... it's hard to think of another piece of machinery of comparable complexity that could operate without any maintenance, in such extreme conditions, for that length of time.
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I always found Voyager to be the best program NASA ever did (and this despite being cut back from how it was originally envisioned). It's a shame that they couldn't launch more satellites back then. (Although it may be a good thing that Voyager VI isn't going to bite us in the non-iron ass.) :wink:

By the way: The Hubble telescope comes in second in my personal ranking of NASA programs. All the rest (including Apollo and the Space Shuttle) pales in comparison to these two.
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The Hubble certainly gets it for the 'wow' factor, but for me it's the first lunar landing.
I remember watching/listening to it live... 'Tranquility base... The Eagle has landed!'... it was awesome.
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slightly derailing but re NASA missiions (ish), have y'all see the trailer for "apollo 18"?
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<shakes his head in bewilderment>
It's very sad, is that.
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It's a bit "Blair Witch on the Moon", but the saddest thing is all the people on YouTube arguing about whether it's real or not. :roll:
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Disembodied wrote:
but the saddest thing is all the people on YouTube arguing about whether it's real or not.
Of course it's not real... all the shadows are wrong. <hollow laughter>
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Apparently the alternative movie title was "When Clangers Attack".
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Voyager and Hubble - both truly awesome achievements, and like EV that Apollo 11 'moment' will live with me forever...I was 12 and my parents let me stay up all night to watch it. Even today the memory sends (good) shivers down my spine, and even now I sometimes find myself wistfully looking up at the moon and thinking "Men once walked there".
More recently the wealth of stuff coming back from Jupiter and Saturn has been astonishing.
And of course we've got Teflon and Memory Foam as well. 8)
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Brilliant, really brilliant... thanks D.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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