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Pioneering NASA Spacecraft Mark 30 Years of Flight
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post Sep 3 2007, 07:47 PM
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Here's a quote from that shutdown proposal article that I found a bit odd:

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Today Voyager 1, about 9 billion miles from Earth and traveling at 46,000 mph, and Voyager 2, about 7 billion miles away doing 63,000 mph, are flirting with the edge of the solar system, where the sun's magnetic field and the solar wind give way to interstellar wind.


I'd say those velocities are off a bit! Voyager 1 is actually traveling at 38,000 mph, and Voyager 2 traveling at 34,000 mph. Later!

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post Sep 5 2007, 02:01 PM
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30th anniversary discussed on BBC TV news:

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post Sep 6 2007, 08:36 AM
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Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977, the day before my 10th Birthday!

So , erm, yes, today is my 40th Birthday!!

There, said it.

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post Sep 6 2007, 10:42 AM
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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.

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post Dec 8 2007, 10:14 PM
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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 wink.gif
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post Dec 8 2007, 11:25 PM
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That's cool as hell, Phil! cool.gif Never saw that before.


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post Dec 9 2007, 10:27 AM
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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.
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post Dec 11 2007, 02:37 AM
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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...044867120071211


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post Dec 11 2007, 03:55 AM
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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...
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post Dec 11 2007, 05:15 AM
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Transcendentally cool, nonetheless... cool.gif


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post Dec 12 2007, 11:27 AM
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"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!
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post Dec 12 2007, 04:06 PM
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We could go on & on about the NASA-JPL pinback buttons as I have a nice collection wink.gif
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post Feb 26 2008, 10:08 PM
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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 cool.gif

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post Feb 27 2008, 03:44 AM
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I think I saw an IguanaCon namebadge in there somewhere... rolleyes.gif

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post Feb 27 2008, 08:24 AM
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That photo was taken in January 1986 during the Voyager 2 Uranus encounter...
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