Voyager Journey to the Stars
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Cosmic Journeys examines the great promise of the Voyager mission and where it will lead us in our grand ambition to move out beyond our home planet. The two Voyager spacecraft are part of an ancient quest to push beyond our boundaries... to see what lies beyond the horizon. Now tens of billions of kilometers from Earth, two spacecraft are streaking out into the void. What will we learn about the Galaxy, the Universe, and ourselves from Voyager's epic Journey to the stars? December 19, 1972... the splashdown of the Apollo 17 crew capsule marked the end of the golden age of manned spaceflight. The Mercury.... Gemini... and Apollo programs had proven that we could send people into space... To orbit the Earth.... Fly out beyond our planet... Then land on the moon and walk among its ancient crater. The collective will to send people beyond our planet faded in times of economic uncertainty, war, and shifting priorities. And yet, just five years after Apollo ended, scientists launched a new vision that was just as profound and even more far-reaching. It didn't all go smoothly. Early computer problems threatened to doom Voyager 2. Then its radio receiver failed, forcing engineers to use a back up. Now, after more than three and a half decades of successful operations, the twin spacecraft are sending back information on their flight into interstellar space. Along the way, they have revealed a solar system rich beyond our imagining. The journey was made possible by a rare alignment of the planets, a configuration that occurs only once every 176 years. That enabled the craft to go from planet to planet, accelerating as they entered the gravitational field of one, then flying out to the next. The Voyagers carried a battery of scientific equipment to collect data on the unknown worlds in their path. That included a pair of vidicom cameras, and a data transfer rate slower than a dialup modem.
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The Space race was a Cold War poster child. Nixon cut the budget to near nothing (unfortunately) because of the Vietnam War cash needs. Huge mistake in my opinion, but that is reality to you less than 60 year old folks. The narrative if false, military was everything, not science, that was always the wrapping paper. Less than $1.00 dollar per 1000 dollars was non-military pure science. Sorry folks.
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Its make me laugh when i see people around us fights for fake powers and domination. In reality we humans are nothing more than a peice of few trillion atom arranged in random crap.
may one day we realize what we did to our earth.
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Hey so good and really like to watch this video.
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21:30 the music
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It's out there among the stars alone.
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I predict near future spacecraft's technology will overtake voyageur ones position in velocity. Etc...Etc....
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I have to watch a full length Viagra commercial to watch one of mankind's greatest voyages?
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I wonder if it ever had a collision with a small Rock Or space debris ??? Hope not
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After 40 Years traveling 50,000 mph we haven't left our own solar system it is a Big World out there
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Acompanho as sondas Voyagers desde que criança, elas são parte de minha vida em1989 quando passou por Netuno lembro como se hoje, tenho o jornal Folha de São Paulo guardado.
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290,ooo years !!!!!
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Beautiful, just beautiful!
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In some respects, the Voyager spacecraft are the most fantastic things we've ever launched into space.
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Voyager 1 actually had a plan to fly past pluto in the 90s but chose Titan as a better target ;_;
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wow I like the vedio
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156 fucked up aliens are envious of our achievements.
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Nobody went to the moon :(
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It's now confirmed. The end of the Masonic Dictatorship.. coming soon !
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旅途愉快,航行者一号与二号。
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Voyager has safely escaped the only solar system known to be infested with nïggérs. I am so jealous! Must be paradise out there - cold, empty, cosmic radiation ... but absolutely positively no boot lipped nïggér jiaboos.
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