"Voyager ," things like that.
Voyager , with 70s technology at Neptune, almost as far as Pluto, had ten times-- There's an antenna right there behind you.
Voyager is 134 times farther from the Sun than Earth is right now.
And Voyager was just finishing.
When Voyager flew cross the solar system, they had a staff of 450 people to run the spacecraft, to do the science team, to do the management,
On Voyager 1, it's just a stick man and some DNA.
The Voyagers are leaving the solar system.
'em voyagers or couriers, and they would do nothing but paddle for you all day long.
There's no Voyager 2 here.
We had "Voyager ."
That's Voyager 1. We launched Voyager 1 in the late '70s.
Isn't Voyager still accelerating?
And we wrote this "Voyager " script.
So we wrote this "Voyager " script.
I worked Voyager Neptune.
And the Voyager is like 120 astronomical units, which is the distance between the Earth and the sun.
We know that the voyagers , when they went back, brought syphilis and other diseases that killed many hundreds of thousands of the Europeans.
And one of the Voyagers has even left our solar system and entered interstellar space.
The two voyagers with Houghton actually make it to shore as his dog makes it to shore as well, it's important to the story.
And the voyagers go into town and say, "Hey look Douglass Houghton's boat just capsized."
And so this mission eventually became Voyager .
And so you can see on the Voyager probe they've done the same thing.
That is Earth taken by Voyager 1 from a viewpoint of about four billion miles away, passing over to Pluto.
Achievement, and JPL Voyager Award for Technical Leadership.
And so yeah, the Voyager missions, which set off here in the 1970s, they are now in interstellar space, but that just means they are past the Kuiper Belt
And "Chasing Coral" is also featured as a Voyager Story within our new version of Earth.
I thought it had a low power-- Isn't Voyager still accelerating?
You have to go back to the early days of "Voyager ".
Yeah, on Voyager 1, a little stick man, a naked woman, and a walking stick or whatever.
the night sky I cannot help but imagine those voyagers several centuries ago using the stars to navigate from Hawaii to New
Our iPhones are so much superior than the computers on the Voyagers .
The highest speed object we have are the Voyagers , which are something like 18 kilometers a second.
On Valentine's Day in 1990, the Voyager spacecraft, out beyond the orbit of Neptune, turned back
they were they were both chain smokers and if you've seen that film Now Voyager he had this habit of lighting two
And Voyagers are out at 140.
And what is going on in these minds that are our co-voyagers on planet Earth?
and trails disappear overnight, has amazed voyagers and scientists for centuries.
just out of grad school in their 20s and 30s, who got this idea that after Voyager made it to Neptune, which was the last of the sort of previous era
But at the time I emerged in 1989 with my PhD, Voyager was finishing.
We had 1/10 the data rate of Voyager , intentionally, because we realized what an enormous cost savings it was.
And we have, I think, three other Voyager Stories that are live right now.
the uh famous test pilot who flew the first non-stop flight around the world un unfueled non-stop flight with voyager
actually designed spaceship one that's in the hallway out there and uh Bert Routan designed Voyager and I was
I don't remember who it was for "Voyager " or "Deep Space Nine."
And you know, it was like I was a brave, capable voyager in one moment, and then I was barely hanging on in others.
But it's also an under-the-hoof look at how you build-- what we had to do was we had to basically rebuilt Voyager
It was part of how they answered this question, how do we do something on a tiny fraction of Voyager 's budget?
What it really was was that if we had lower power transmitters, I could graduate down from two like Voyager to one nuclear power supply.
Not only does stardust flow through our veins, but also as Carl Sagan poetically put it, he had the NASA engineers turn the Voyager satellite around
There is a rocket called Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977 and still travels to wards it.