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Voyager 1 Just Fired Up Its Backup Thrusters For The First Time In 37 Years
Voyager 1, the probe which became the first man-made object to leave the solar system in 2012, has been away from home for a long, long time — approximately 40 years. It’s still been beaming back reams of data and, in its off time, sending extremely ill-advised texts to distant alien civilisations that may or…
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New Kickstarter Wants To Reissue NASA’s Golden Record
Launched in the late 1970s, the two Voyager space probes were equipped with a golden record containing sounds and images of life on Earth. Intended for alien consumption, this record has never been made available to the public in its intended form. An exciting new Kickstarter is now seeking to overcome this egregious oversight.