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Voyager 1: Humanity’s Lone Traveler at the Edge of Space

The Untold Legacy of Voyager 1: A Journey of Exploration, Resilience, and Human Ingenuity

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Sep 18, 2024
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In an extraordinary display of human ingenuity, NASA engineers recently revived a dormant set of thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft to ensure its ongoing communication with Earth. This remarkable achievement extends the mission of a probe launched 47 years ago, which now drifts through the vast unknown of interstellar space, over 15 billion miles fro…

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