Voyager..still truckin

[mickeyd]

I recall when this mission started and am amazed that those thrusters are still speaking to NASA.

NASA wakes up Voyager's slumbering thrusters 37 years later

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/nasa-wakes-voyager-apos-slumbering-000500191.html


Sorry I misspelled Voyager in title...

 

[Alan]

Fixed the spelling for you in the title.

 

[ls99]

Hats off to the designers and builders of the craft.

Sometimes I have trouble waking up my 10yo mower after a winter of hibernation.

 

[Red Badger]

Hats off to the designers and builders of the craft.

Sometimes I have trouble waking up my 10yo mower after a winter of hibernation.

+1.

If I had a buck for every mile ol' V1 has travelled, I'd have lotsa bucks!

Awesome stuff.

 

[dirt_dobber]

launched in Sept 1977 - I wonder how many people at NASA were there then and are still in the program.