NASA Beams a #MessageToVoyager

On Sept. 5, 2017—the 40th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch—NASA revealed the winning #MessageToVoyager and beamed it into space. "Message to Voyager" is a social media campaign inspired by the messages of goodwill carried on the Golden Record aboard each Voyager spacecraft.

NASA invited the public to submit short, uplifting messages to the Voyager 1 spacecraft and all that lies beyond it. These messages were a maximum of 60 characters and were tagged #MessageToVoyager. NASA tracked more than 30,000 submissions. The Voyager team together with JPL and NASA headquarters selected their 10 favorites, which were then put to a public vote. The winning message was sent into interstellar space by a command that originated from the Deep Space Network (DSN) mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with help from the original Captain Kirk, actor William Shatner; Tracy Drain, Juno mission deputy chief engineer; Jeff Berner, DSN chief engineer; and Annabel Kennedy, DSN command engineer.

[cosmoscenti]

2:00 sounds like we're receiving a message too

[TheBienator]

V'gers reply: I want to meet my Creator

[littlemittromney]

"ya i spent a week abroad in Spain in my junior year of collage"

"oh ya? NASA sent my tweet into space"

[tabularasa]

The Electromagnetic field propagates through photons. It's not "A" photon, it's many photons.

[pronateceepadm]

the message is " Space, the final frontier ... These are the Voyages of the Starship Voyager, in their five year mission to explore new worlds, search for new lives, new civilizations."

[harryandruschak]

I worked at JPL 1974-1986, and that included the Voyager Mission. I am thrilled the spacecraft e built I functioning 40 years later.

[Focusembedded]

They should have sent "Mostly Harmless."

[normanhart]

Is it just me or did Captain Kirk seem like he had a few Captain and Cokes that morning

[andrewchoy]

Hey, Captain Kirk is right, radio wave is also photons lor. Duality Principle of Light lor..

[PcGameGold]

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it!"

[richardjensen]

Captain Janeway would have been nice, but Kirk was the one who made contact with the V'ger (Voyager) spacecraft in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Happy adventuring, Voyager!

[TechnoIndustria]

That's awesome. Was expecting a TOS quote. Instead we got a DW quote, so much better :D

[CHIRAGnagar]

I want to ask a question. If we Built A Voyager at present time with present modern science and technology. Then What would be the Differences Between the Old and new voyager ? Because I m very curious to know . As I know the Creators and scientists of Original Voyager were ahead of their time . And still now looking upon this 47 year's Old Science Marvel I always get Amazed

[shawntepitts]

Yup sure did, I hope that they got the message loud and clear

[ConanBrady]

Magical, yes. In more ways than we can imagine. lol

[BezoLS]

so where my 10 hours edition of this video ?

[iceberg]

what is so bug deal, just get a big parabolic reflector, calculate & direct it towards the general direction of voyager path, put your mobile fone in front and send an sms to anybody.

some very fraction of sms radiation will probably reach voyager, but voyager will not be able detect / read it, is a different issue.

[NIGHTOWL-jfzt]

Hello from the future. I would have submitted " We have been trying to reach you, call us " ( insert listening frequency )

[hmurdock]

My message would be- "We are not tasty. Do not eat".

[zakariaao]

2:00 Stop messing with the comms Johnny