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Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the grandpa's-space-probe-still-tellin-stories dept.

Raver32 writes to mention that 30 years after the original launch of Voyager 2, both Voyager spacecraft are still going strong. Flying away from us some billions of miles from our solar system's edge they continue to be a wealth of information more than 25 years after their original mission concluded. Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object at a distance from the sun of about 9.7 billion miles (15.6 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is about 7.8 billion miles (12.6 billion kilometers).

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  1. Re:hmmmm... by Zwerker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Fare thee well V'Ger. May you find and join with the creator.

  2. Re:Only 268 years left ... by ArcherB · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Only 268 or so years left until Voyager comes back. Well, I'm not sure which one it is, but one of them is coming back. But we've got some time to deal with the carbon lifeform infestation .

    Well, I for one will welcome our misspelled, silicon based overlord!

    (sorry, but he beat me to the ST The Motion Picture reference!)

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  3. Re:hmmmm... by Zerbey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    (Showing how much of a Geek I am). The Klingons blew up a Pioneer spacecraft in ST:V, not Voyager. Unless I'm forgetting something from the Motion Picture.