Voyager 1: The Furthest Man-Made Object From Earth

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[greg_mid_tn]

My Father worked on the propulsion system of Voyager 1 and 2. He's gone, but a part of him is still flying. Go Voyagers!

[deathbower]

As an interstellar species, I would hope that the Voyager one museum was a spacecraft built around the probe as it flies through space so that it may continue its journey, even in its obsolecense.

[BlackBirdLTU]

there's a story about when C.Sagan and his colleagues approached R.Nixon for a single Voyager mission budget explaining that it would be a historic opportunity because of how planets have been aligned. After listening to them, Nixon said: "Send two".

[N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

At this point Simon's beard is a megaproject.

[KylleinMacKellerann]

Voyager 1 will be proof that we once existed.

[darranstyler]

“Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.” - Douglas Adams

[JohnSmith-gbvg]

My dad was stationed at satellite beach in 73-76’ from the beach when that rocket launched as kid I swear it stilled the air and made the sound of the waves gone if not flattened them a little. The ground shook even out where we were. Awesome time to be a kid.

[imperial]

"Chasing Voyager 1" That'd be a mega-project for sure

[thomasfholland]

I (Redaction: didn’t know if anybody else would care) but my dad was one of the chief engineers at NASA/JPL that did the calculations for the trajectories of V1 & V2

[twylanaythias]

My grandfather was a giant of the scientific community from the mid-1930s into the 1970s, and part of a summer road trip in 1977 included a private tour of Cape Canaveral in late July. Only got to look at the final assembly through different windows (for obvious reasons) but, while watching this video, it occurred to me that I am possibly the last person to have ever actually seen Voyager-1 with their own eyes.

That realization, coupled with the fact that it left our solar system nearly a decade ago, is sobering beyond words.

[fromulus]

Simon, this is honestly such a remarkable accomplishment for all of humanity, it's miraculous really. From what it taught us about jupiter and saturn on its original mission, to the fact they could adjust it with its thrusters after 37 years while it's billions and billions of miles away, and it still does and will continue to be available in general is just, beyond amazing. Here's to hoping it doesn't bump into something after all this time, because we'd have no idea, it'd just disappear.

[edwardneal]

This has to be my favorite Mega Project so far. I'm pretty sure Voyager's last transmission Will be
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."

[otaylorgoulart]

Imagine if 50 years after we lose contact the Voyager starts to come back at us, that would be the creepiest thing ever

[Sommertest]

Cosmic Purgatory has to be the most Metal scientific name yet.

[jeffwalker]

In the time it took me to watch this video, Voyager 1 has travelled in excess of 12, 000 miles.

[cyclonicleo]

It really is an utterly mind blowing this, given the numbers involved.

Though wouldn't it be funny if our first contact with alien life was them giving back Voyager 1 in a rather annoyed fashion, demanding that we not litter space with our "rubbish".

[janehealy]

I was a17 year old wannabe hippy when these these guys left our planet. I'm not a scientist, but I have a sentimental attachment to the Voyagers, I feel like I grew up with them! That they are still sending data to this day is just amazing, especially considering the tecnology of that time!

[tomsawyer]

What if voyager gets slung back to us with spray paint like "go home ya peeping tom!" "Go back to earth, you're drunk!"

[perfboi]

I love the Voyagers - the little probes that could! Also you forgot to mention the discs on each probe!

[cpljimmyneutron]

My grandfather worked on the camera's on both Voyager probes, as well as many other objects on space. I love pulling up the Voyager Mission Log website and showing people that they are still going and still working.