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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-092
Here's a http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/9263496.html I wasn't aware of:
Is there a reference for the booster underperformance? Didn't Voyager 1 actually put a higher demand on the launch vehicle as it was launched on a faster trajectory?
This quote also seems inaccurate to me:
Well, I don't know about any of these things, but since this is a birthday thread I'll give my thoughts along those lines.
Voyager occupies a really special place with me. I can remember back to what passed as NASA - TV back then, I think it was V2's flyby of Saturn. I had just become old enough to know what the Voyagers were and what they were doing and I sat for days in front of the TV... watching the images come in just as the mission scientists did back at JPL. It launched a deep interest in astronomy (and later spaceflight itself) that's lasted and defined me ever since.
Thank you Voyager.... here's to 30 MORE years!
*raises glass*
It can't be 30 years! My tee-shirt still shows 12 years.
I've got to ask TPS for replacement with an updated one.
Superb T-shirt... a real classic
While I don't claim any expertise in the politics of NASA's relationship with Congress, it's hard to believe that the proposal to shut down the Voyager program in 2005 was anything but an attention-getting gesture. For one thing, assuming that NASA actually had made an irrevocable commitment to shut off all government money from the program, private funding could probably been raised in several hours.
TTT
In my opinion, Voyager is of the most successful missions mankind has ever launched, no question.
These sort of games are not unique to NASA. In fact, they remind me of school budgets. Well, you all voted down the budget... the first thing we cancel is high school sports and all elementary school field trips. Oh look at that, the re-vote passed.
Here's a quote from that shutdown proposal article that I found a bit odd:
30th anniversary discussed on BBC TV news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/science_nature/video/117000/bb/117278_16x9_bb.ram?ad=1&ct=90
Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977, the day before my 10th Birthday!
So , erm, yes, today is my 40th Birthday!!
There, said it.
Brian
I got a dozen years on ya, ya young whipper-snapper!
I turn 52 this coming October 17th... I was born just short of two years before Sputnik 1.
-the other Doug
I always enjoyed the design of the 1970s and 1980s pinback buttons made by JPL.
Here's an example of a nice on; Goodbye Saturn and upside down it says Hello Uranus
That's cool as hell, Phil! Never saw that before.
Those were based in the calligraphic magic of a wunderkid calligraphic "geek"/"artist" who'd just made a distinct splash in the sci/techie world. I don't recall his name, but I think he was discovered or at least promoted by Martin Gardiner and his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.
It appears that Voyager 2 has indeed crossed over to the other side...
"Voyager 2 entered the termination shock almost 1 billion miles closer within the southern hemisphere of the heliosphere of the solar system than Voyager 1 previously had," said Voyager Project scientist Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1044867120071211
The artist most famous for the calligraphic text inversions is Scott Kim, but the Saturn/Uranus pin doesn't really look like his work. His tend to be a bit more polished and fancier calligraphy...
Transcendentally cool, nonetheless...
"but the Saturn/Uranus pin doesn't really look like his work. " That's who I was thinking of... if those weren't Kim's work, they certainly were inspired by it. It was a microscopic "all the rage" at the time.
"It appears that Voyager 2 has indeed crossed over to the other side..." ONWARD! 0UTWOARD! TO THE HELIOPAUSE!
We could go on & on about the NASA-JPL pinback buttons as I have a nice collection
Already looking forward to the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Voyager asteroid belt crossings and the Voyager 1 Jupiter encounter, I guess it's time to put on our best clothes
the other Philip
I think I saw an IguanaCon namebadge in there somewhere...
-the other Doug
That photo was taken in January 1986 during the Voyager 2 Uranus encounter...
I was there (at least at the Planetfest) and collected a few of those buttons. Not as many as the gentleman in the photo. (Is that you?)
No that's not me (although I have most of the buttons )
It's one of the flight-team engineers of Voyager 2 (photo taken 26-1-1986)
In fact those were hard times at JPL as the Uranus encounter Press conference was in preparation, the news of the Challenger 51-L disaster came in...
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