Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Launched in 1977, it’s now 15 billion miles from earth. It took 5 months to fix a glitch in its computers. Think about that, the computers aboard are over 47 years old, and the engineers communicate with it using 1977 computers and their ancient language from earth. A stunning achievement! https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/nasa-voyager-1-spacecraft-sending-readable-data-back-earth/story?id=109572983 8 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 I'm glad that they reestablished communication with Nomad and that it, and Voyager 2, are still relaying information back to Earth. Launched the same year I graduated high school and the same month I moved out of the house and out on my own at 17. I'm still about 10 miles from where I launched from, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away from where it launched from...Hmm. Every time I hear about Voyager 1 (and 2), it reminds of the Star Trek episode with the spacecraft Nomad in it. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Don’t you mean “V-ger”? That is truly amazing. 15B miles. That’s 600,000 trips around Earth at the surface. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 (edited) Five probes have left the solar system. The Pioneers are dead. New Horizons will need centuries to “pass” the Voyagers. Edited April 25 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Zook Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Amazing what we built in the 50's-70's for the space program. The F1 engines for the Saturn 5 are unable to be remade for Artemis -- Apparently no one knows how anymore - https://youtu.be/ovD0aLdRUs0?si=_fM-HN3DPHPTp1G1 Found this while looking online for some data on the F1... F1 - Rocket Engine Scale Model kit 1/12 - Accuraspacemodels never knew they made scale models of it nor the other's shown... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Launched 5 months after my wife and I bought our first house and ten months before I left the Marine Corps. That was over half my lifetime ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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