Voyager 1: The little spacecraft that could | Technology – KHBS .
Hurtling across the Milky Way like an eternal explorer — the Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to nonchalantly reveal the mysteries of the solar system to a captivated Earthbound audience.
Active volcanoes, methane rain, icy geysers and intricate details about Saturn’s rings — the list of revelations attributed to the mission reads like fantastical sci-fi novel but it has revolutionized planetary astronomy.
Thirty-seven years after it launched, Voyager 1 is still out in the vast expanse of space, periodically relaying new data back home. But in 2013, NASA made the groundbreaking announcement that Voyager 1 had left the heliosphere — a magnetic boundary “bubble,” if you will, which scientists use to explain the separation of our solar system from the rest of the galaxy.
Read the whole thing. h/t to Instapundit, the MacGyver of bloggers.
I’m trying to determine if I saw either or both of these launches. I was a cooperative education student, from the University of Tennessee, working at Kennedy Space Center during this period of time.
Here’s a picture of the launch of Voyager I from the Wikipedia website. They reference the Titan launch vehicle, I believe it is a Titan/Centaur (2nd stage) launch vehicle. You can learn more about the Voyager mission at Wikipedia and I’m sure many other places.
