Nasa’s Voyagers: 35 Years Of Inspiration [update: Now It’s 40]

John Timmer, Ars Technica
Sat, 08/19/2017 - 10:00am

(credit: National Geographic) This weekend, NASA's historic Voyager spacecrafts celebrate their 40th year in space. The missions have given humanity many awe-inspiring discoveries in those four decades, and Voyager 1 and 2 have inspired infinite further initiatives or related works, too (such as a great new documentary debuting this week).

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