This brings back lots of memories. I was a station operator at Goldstone Deep space tracking station. I was the the receiver operator at station 12 during the Voyager 2 Jupiter pass. Those were special times :)
This is still in our galaxy, after 40 years of travel. The universe is massive. I’m so jealous of the generation 10k years from now, they will experience interstellar travel in a way that we can’t even imagine.
As far as the Milky Way goes, the Voyagers are still in our own back yard! Only 60,960 years until they get anywhere close to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri!
Forget that theory! The next generation of this society will probaly go extinct because of their stupidity! They can't even determine if their a boy, girl, man or woman! If Americans keeps electing foolish politicians? They'll not just be a culture of confused , poorly educated fools, with low mentality? They'll end up marrying animals and breeding with them!😎
What a strange emotional reaction...in the final moments of the video I got waves of goose bumps and my eyes filled with tears. The though of the little voyagers traveling through interstellar space a half-million years from now (probably longer after human beings are extinct) was poignant, touching, and really powerful. Can't quite get it into words what I'm feeling...so powerful. What a great video!
I know exactly what you mean and feel the same way. I've been fascinated with information like this my whole life as it speaks to the eternity of our Spirits and our infinite natures. We all have something to look forward to after we die!
"Human Beings" are utterly amazing when they decide to do something, and work together instead of fighting with each other over nonsense. Absolutely amazing! Proud of you on this one Earth :)
Today; while waiting in the dentist office, I read that NASA declared rover Opportunity as "dead" after several months of failed attempts to communicate with it. My eyes welled up and my nose stung in response to emotional restraint. She was a machine that lasted an impressive15 years beyond its intended life span of 3 months. Saying "goodbye" to Opportunity reminded me of Voyagers 1&2 leaving the system for interstellar space. Even though I love Science Fiction, I will always be in awe of moments like this in Science Reality.
I felt the same by... sad yes, but more a yearning. As a species we will no longer exist in present form, if at all 500,000 years hence. Yet we will travel on to infinity-ish with our voices and visage embossed on gold records. Proud too like you. They might well be the two singular memories of our entire existence. It's way Vast and Deep when you ponder it.
I couldn't help the feeling of being brought almost to tears for the loneliness I felt on behalf of the Voyagers. Strange however, that they will very likely outlast us. Very proud of them.
My goodness, it is so humbling and awe inspiring to think that no matter what happens to the human race (and assuming nothing catastrophic happens to the Voyagers) there will always be a legacy of humanity traveling the cosmos till the end of time . . .
our memory is forever implanted in the collective conscience. We came from something before us, and whatever comes after us, will include a part of humanity. It's physics.
They are old friends from my childhood. watching them, listening to the progress and tales that they still tell moves me. I get tears in my eyes and often down my cheeks, realizing the epic journey these two mighty adventurers mean to mankind.
Published on my birthday. I was 37 when the Voyager's left the planet it's just amazing. Like those craft some of my sensors and detectors and shutting down. What a good life.
I was eighteen when they departed on their journey.. You are going to be an octogenarian next year? Wow!!! I'll be a hexagenarian next year. I do not expect to live as long as you have. Poor health has always been an issue and has taken its toll. Some are blessed with good health while others are not. So I can empathize with the systemic degeneracy and consequential systemic failure as it is happening to me currently. i do understand that all too well. Whatever is not regenerate is degenerate as life is dynamic and there is no stasis in living organisms. You are either growing or your dying. Whatever is static is dead. And you are still here and so am I here. And i will be arriving somewhere but not here. I agree. It has been a good life. It could have been worse...but...it was not. It is as it is and I will not have it any other way.
This video needs to be seen by today's programmers and hardware engineers. Just thinking of how instruments keep on working for decades should tell us the quality of engineering, design depth and the dedication by which all the subsystems were assembled. Simply in today's fast paced life, such design will be difficult to build and integrate. We also do not have the quality of the engineering teams required. As everything today boils down to MONEY. Anything that is not going to give returns in a few months or max a year simply does not pass the bill for bureaucrats to pass the bill. Hats off to these REAL SCIENTISTS and their solar shaking experiments that are outliving those who designed it.
Yeah I agree about the hardware but I am a programmer and a program cannot fail. It will do whatever you programmed for a billion years. It cannot fail unless you change it...think about it.....
Today there is no need to build anything to last a lifetime because things don't get old, they get outdated or old-fashioned. When I was a little boy (now 66) we bought refrigerators with a lifetime guarantee. Is there anything today you would buy just because they may guarantee it to last a lifetime? However you are partly correct. There are things that should work for ten years, but last only until Monday.
I don't know about anyone else, but this makes me proud to be a human. Yeah yeah , I know, I'm crazy. The Voyager project's were huge accomplishments, and to think, they're still transmitting information. Something to be proud of.
Wow. Here I was thinking the Voyagers were now travelling outside the solar system - and to find out we won't technically leave it for another 30,000 years at current speed. If this doesn't give you a sense of how vast space is and just how truly small we are, I don't know what can. Very cool!
I thought so too, but didn't they just leave the solar system and entered interstellar space (as of 2012) and it is the next nearest star is 30,000 light years away
@@RichardCowdrey they technically included the Oort cloud in the solar system. It lies outside the Heliosphere and is considered interstellar space but is still part of the system.
Richard Cowdrey not 30000 light years just 30000 years+ depending on which probes speed they are doing the maths on. The nearest star is Proxima Centuria 4.2 light years away but that is still 25,000,000,000,000 miles away
I became interested in science when Voyager I and Voyager II space crafts were launched. They told us by the time we get old it will leave the solar system. I'm 55 now.
I find myself just as perplexed...I can't even fathom 1000 years let alone 225 million. Thats 225,000,000 years for a single orbit around our galactic plane at about 39,000mph... If this doesn't prove Rick is right that nothing matters and everything does...then I don't know what else to say.
What a womderful narration, i could listen to that voice forever.. I left school in 1971, space was a big thing then, conspiracies ruled... Eric Von Daniken set the world on fire with his books and still today has never been convincingly discredited. The mind boggles, a million miles per dayand still travelling when our sun goes cold... incredible...
Never been convincingly discredited? Von Daniken is a laughing stock in the scientific community. If someone argued Jupiter is a blob of milk and coffee mixing. Would you waste your time correcting them?
And that is why NASA is looking for younger people who know FORTRAN,COBOL and assembly language the language(so they can be taught the special GE variant used in Voyager) that the Voyagers were programmed in.
There are several articles that say that is some COBOL, I doubted that myself, as COBOL is a VERY resource inefficient which so not something you want on a spacecraft. No doubt on the Assembler and FORTRAN.
A true testament to what the best of Humanity is capable of. These 2 instruments have been traveling through space for 40+ years now, and are still functioning in many aspects, and expected to function for several more years yet..absolutely amazing! I was 19 and in College when they departed in 1977, and now I'm nearing retirement. so a "careers" worth of time has gone by, half a Human lifetime, or 2 generations to put it perspective. A very well done video, one of those that "rivets" your attention..one that that you can't take your eyes from...
the distances in outer space are things the human mind cant wrap around. there is some sense of awe and amazement perhaps emotionalism attached to it. all those years is something that will humble any human
My Father an Electrical Design Engineer Sr at JPL helped to develop and designed the Argon engine and ion engines at JPL and worked on both Voyager and Mariner projects I know how to build the argon Engine by the way he told me both Voyagers should last longer than we will exist
This dokumentary is so damn good. Thank you. That tiny object all alone out there makes me so proud as a human its crazy. Hope the US or someone else will send a #3 out there with current tech just to keep the Voyager programm going. All the best from Germany
I chose this topic as a junior in High school, 1982 . No one seemed to know what I was talking about. I have followed V 1&2 and have never been disappointed. Horizon in 2019 was truly .. Much more education in these endeavors should be in our public schools
this...somehow makes me proud to be a human goshh Im crying 😭 WISHING ALL LUCK FOR THE TWO PROBES
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You must be from a certain group of humans who are capable of engineering this amazing feat and that is a special group to belong to.. Not all humans are capable of this elevated thinking, and they are not the least bit impressed.
Agreed, there are those who will be proud of this amazing achievement and others who point out the Voyagers aren't in interstellar space as they haven't passed the Oort cloud!
In just 74 years, we went from the Wright brothers' first flight, to the Voyager spacecraft. That's only about one average human lifetime. Who knows what we might accomplish in the next 100 years?
I remain hopeful. I was a teenager when these were launched. Now just a little over 40+ years later...TH-cam is being polluted with "Flat Earth" videos! (facepalm) Who'd have guessed?!? I just wish there was something close by for these craft to actually take pictures of! Kuiper Belt objects will be too dim to see anything useful,I'm guessing. Still,amazing to think about,Nice upload here,Thanks!
@@shanetune1 the existence of the flat earthers even after the achievements in technology that requires acceptance of the round earth, (including the internet) is an ironic tragedy...
As a man born July 1977 it amazing to think when voyager 1 and voyager 2 were making their path towards the inner and outer planets I have been marking my own journey on planet earth. Now 42 years on both have just recently left our solar system and now journey through interstellar space it just boggles the mind how vast our solar system is never mind the milky way or universe
It was my 16th birthday , when Voyager 1 blasted off....I remember seeing the lift off on the 9 O’clock news Every time I hear news about these amazing space crafts.....I feel a part of me goes with them.....utterly stupid thought.....but that how I feel....
Not stupid all. i can relate to what your saying and how you feel , its great that you watched it, i was born in 69 i was 8 i cant remember seeing any footage of voaygers leaving our planet i watch every update possible. 2025-2027 will be a very sad when we say goodbye to the voaygers i really hope we all celebrate their 50th birthday with them ! that would be great
mp3ste1 I was born in 88, long after those crafts were launched and I feel similar. Maybe it’s pride in humanity and what we can accomplish or maybe it’s comfort in the knowledge that proof are existence is secure for billions of years to come.
No, the Voyagers will not be taking any more pictures. VOYAGER 2’s cameras were turned off in 1989 to save power for other instruments that collect data on solar wind and interstellar space. VOYAGER 1’s cameras were turned off on Valentine’s Day 1990 after taking a picture of the famous “Pale Blue Dot” - also to save power for other instruments. The spacecraft will never again fly close enough to any astronomical object to take pictures. The Cosmos is just too dark and black, empty, and vast. Since Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, it will not come anywhere near another star for 40,000 years.
"Pale Blue Dot"...The great Carl Sagan would have been so proud of Voyagers 1 achievements.....the only man made object in interstellar space carrying the evidence of human existence long after this planet of ours ceases to exist...Thank you for this great video.
Whoever built these two voyagers, have left behind their fingerprints infinitely even when mankind are long gone. It is sad to see Voyager 1 & 2 part ways, in different direction. I wish they will both eventually meet path, like a long lost lovers, somewhere in the distance where nobody will ever know.
I once knew a guy that worked on some of the optics one on one of these, though he passed away over 20 years ago. I forget now if it was Voyager 1 or Voyager 2, I think it was Voyager 2.
Excellent video, its somewhat comforting to know that a collection of images and sounds from our lifetimes will be forever preserved long after humanity has gone.
I heard somewhere that the cost per taxpayer was around .76 cents. (taxpayers from the 70's, not today's current taxpayers) Now I call that great bang for the buck! That keeps on giving dividends! Think of all the science we leaned about our solar system because of the Voyager spacecraft's.
+joshuaoha - I'm an Israeli which salutes the U.S citizens for funding one of the greatest human achievement- NASA. The objects you send to other worlds are not only american objects, they are human ones. I deeply thank you for that.
It's amazing to think that snapshot of humanity from the late seventies will literally go on forever, the Voyager mission has to be up there as one of humanities greatest achievements, maximum kudos to the entire Voyager team.
Thank you Carol, fantastic delightful video, all this story about Voyager 1 and 2 impress me somehow emotively on the very strange way, all that vastness, infinity and distance hard to comprehend. Good luck Voyagers !!!
What an amazing story... Loved watching every minute of it... made me feel eerily insignificant and sad that we won't be around while it will continue to travel to infinity.
Terry Richardson It is sublime luck for us to be sharing this experience. What an amazing time for us to be here, living our lives on this incredible Blue Dot planet in the midst of the Milky Way! To be able to see what humans have accomplished during our infancy, is a remarkable gift. My birthday is on the 24th of this month, September. At age 9 I knew I loved the sky, astronomy, science fiction, and NASA, not to mention John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inspiring speech that helped humans reach our Moon. I make it to age 66 and hope for a few more, as my hunger for knowledge has not been sated.
@ Terry Richardson @ Steven DiBernardo Like I replied to another post to this video, I understand feeling small, but not insignificant. Really, when you think of the entire scope of scientific discovery, we humans have discerned an incredible amount and the fact that these two spectacularly successful probes, products of our quest for knowledge and inventiveness will have an insignificant but lasting impact on the galaxy uplifts my spirit. We can be amazing if we try to be. I totally agree Steve, that the fact that we have lived through or been informed directly from this preliminary reconnaissance of our home solar system (starting with the Sputnik and Explorer probes, Apollo, the Mariners, Viking, this grand tour of Voyager, Spirit and Opportunity, Galileo, Cassini, Curiosity, ending with the Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres and New Horizons mission to Pluto) makes this a uniquely amazing time to have been alive on this planet ! Unless civilization collapses entirely, there will not be another time when we have explored for the first time, this much of our planetary neigborhood. And even if that does happen... there are these intrepid probes and the Pioneers and New Horizons, sailing for practically eternity, testaments to human achievement.
Absolutely beautiful and amazing. We were married in 1977 and still going strong after all this time. Just like the Voyagers though, there are bits that don't work so well now! Keep on Treking....
I don't. This is what they were built for, in a way, and thus one can hope that if they could feel anything, they'd feel proud of where they are now....
I'm deeply touched by the video history, that is the history of my life. When Voyagers took off I was 14 years old. My best friend father worked in Madrid NASA antenna facilities, so we have a lot of information about NASA missions and about Voyagers, that were very hopeful at that time. But I never could imagine where these two small bits of human technology can go and show. Nowadays I'm an amateur astronomer, and every time I get some more information about Voyager, I'm amazed. Sincere thanks.
"Voyagers are destined, perhaps for all eternity, to wonder the cosmos carrying with them the only traces of our human existence." ...get's me every time.
Die Voyager Raumsonden sind dazu bestimmt, vielleicht für alle Ewigkeit, den Kosmos zu durchqueren und die einzigen Spuren unserer menschlichen Existenz mit sich zu führen. -deepL.com
The Voyagers defy belief. Whatever amazing gadgets Apple and Tesla attempt to amaze me with, none will ever compare to the two astonishing Voyagers and Pioneer that use 1970s technology, I’m truly staggered; and great video and commentary.
I lived in the UK for 15 years at various times from 1982 thru to 2003 (my wife being English) always missed looking up and not being able to see the southern cross in all it's glory. I watched both telecasts of "Stargazing Live" on the ABC with with Prof. Brian Cox and Julia Zemiro... Bloody brilliant..! My son who is 24 now but asked for a telescope for his 21st so we have had great fun together looking at the night sky with his 8" Dobsonian. Amazing what you can see out there with something so simple.
As an Australian, I am also in absolute awe of the United States for its space program, the thing the 20th and 21st centuries will be most remembered for in a thousand years.
This video and narration is one of the most amazing things I have ever watched. I feel like a tiny particle in the sands of time. I wish there were more space coverage on our standard TV channels/documentaries etc. I also wish there was more info and explanation on the science behind orbits etc . I have started playing Kerbal space program and this has given me a massive interest in all things space related. thankyou again for the video
Bravo to the engineers ! Amazing what you did. I'm a space nerd and literally teared up thinking about losing signal from Voyager. I was 5 when it launched. Awesome stuff
The latest rover that lasted 16 yrs on mars was the longest any of our space craft have ever operated.Other than the Hubble space telescope and the ISS.Both Voyagers are still in operation and were made in the 1970's.WoW! Our space program companies need to focus on good long lasting quality space craft.Not just pushing an agenda to go somewhere,completing a mission,while sacrificing that quality.If it's not made and programmed well by talented engineers it won't last long enough to get the job done and do even greater things afterwards.Just like the Voyagers are still doing now.All because quality mattered over cost.Not the other way around.
Once, in the early 1970's, I worked at a company which manufactured fuses. I was placed in-charge of QA work for a series of solid gold fuses destined for JPL. At the time, we were not told what program they would be used within, but before I left the company to return to school, I was asked to provide my signature in a box next to my name. I was given sketchy answers to my questions, which suggested the spacecraft were inter-planetary/inter-stellar craft of a very unique nature, and when Voyager I & II were launched a few years later in 1977, I knew my fuses were aboard those spacecraft. I suspect my name is engraved somewhere on the craft, as that was exactly what they did for everyone who had a hand in that program. Even if my signature is not present in space, it is interesting to know that my work is on a voyage into the universe which will only be interrupted if it is destroyed in some fashion. It would be very cool to have one of these craft be intercepted by another life form and then find out its source. Hopefully, they would be intelligent enough to decipher the clues as to where the craft originated as well as who the people were on that planet and what we look and sound like here on Earth.
It's just staggering to know that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will be the only evidence that humans ever existed. When they finally stop transmitting they will each be completely alone, devoid of any human contact yet continue their journey for millions of years to come. If Carol described the process of paint drying I'd listen to it.. :-)
Like two bottles cast into a great sea of time and space. They carry a message from the third rock from a sun, of life that lived there and a clever species that reached for the stars.
Thank you... superbly animated and narrated. What an unbelievable technological achievement... I wished the trillions spent on arms and military was instead spent in great scientific projects and discoveries.
What an extraordinary interstellar journey the Voyagers are on. Am somewhat emotional, maybe because we mere humans never thought they would still be on the job for so long. Well done to the engineers and scientists. This is inspiring. P.S, I visited CDSCC at Tidbinbilla in Canberra it was amazing.
Ive been watching their journey all of my life. Im 45 yrs old and i stand in awe of what Voyager 1@2 have accomplished. Their trek through the darkness always brings light and hope that we as earthlings can reach the heavens. 🤓
Thank you so much for this video Carol Meier. Never been able to understand why the sheer magnitude of the achievements of the Voyager program haven't been heralded as humanity at its very very best, full of hope, drama,romance, ambition and pure inquisitiveness.
Major congrats to mankind for such a great achievement. This was truly an awesome video & the narrator did a beautiful job..... God speed Voyager 1 & 2.... We thank you 👋🌎🛰
The vast distances and time are overwhelming. I'm glad that there might be some part of us floating around a billion years from now out there somewhere
I can't conceive of a billion years but when I started work at 4am I often 'met' the only other cars on the road at intersections. There is something about travels that causes them to meet. If a meeting is possible I think it will happen.
The final sentence sent a chill down my spine. Just to think of that... The Voyagers will be the legacy and proof of the existence of the intelligent human race when humans are no more. Isaac Newton is immortal in the truest sense.
I am born in 1960, it feels like me with other millions are *Privileged to have lived through this Space Odyssey* . *Salutes* to the Scientists who thought of all this for the future.
Launched in 1977. With our technology of43 years ago. Can you imagine if we released more today? Yet society is more concerned with entertainment that knowledge so we pay football players 100m a year.
I just cannot cease to be impressed & amazed by the achievements of these crafts and their 'workers'. I am also extremely grateful to have access to all the data this video shares ...... such a wonderful time to be alive. That said, for the life of me a simply cannot understand the 970 anomalies (as @ 2019), those anomalies being the 970 dislikes?!?!? What is there not to LOVE about this video and its awesome subject?!?
The Voyager program cost the average American Tax payer $1.25, NASA knew that was too much to ask so the cost was spread over five years. I can’t think of anything of greater value for such a low price!
Beautifully written, with great graphics and well narrated. I couldn't stop listening so wonderful. We really should send up another one with today's technology. I know that that too would be outdated 50 years from now but still, good to keep going.
We did such cool and inspirational things in the 70s. It's so disappointing that the discourse nowadays is all about discrediting science and political rancor.
When you think, just how much is invested in US Defence projects,,this was the singular worthwhile investment we can look upon as a great SUCCESS. Thank you Carl Sagan & Co..
It was a reliable system for recording and playing back data. Also Foghat. As a side note-I worked in radio from the mid 80s to the mid 90s, and we used a derivative of the 8 track to play the music and commercials. They always cued to the right place, so slap a cart in, hit the play button, and it played
I worked on Mariner 1 and 2 the flyby to Mars in 1963 and that's what was used also (Tape recorder). I tested the Data Automation system on the craft. The tape recorders where used to record the TV cameras as it passed by Mars.
It’s amazing to think that we are still able to communicate with the spacecraft. When the power runs out in 2027 it will be a sad day, Voyager will continue its journey to eternity in our vast universe. Just amazing!
I'm so impressed by the durability of these two instruments. Both in terms of what we could build of technology back when they where build on earth and while thinking about what they have experienced during their fleight.
Would be an interesting find, no doubt. But they would be *very* difficult to find, being so small. Perhaps the only way to track them hundreds of years from now would be by the decaying Plutonium.
That's highly unlikely. The last few hundred (hundred!) years of incredible progress are an exception, as far as our history is concerned. Moreover, our technology is up against theorietical limits pretty much everywhere you look. I suspect we are going to face stagnation in the next few hundred years, partly caused by our own influence on our environment.
Just a fascinating documentary, and an extraordinary journey. To think that something humans built will outlast our sun and solar system is mind-boggling.
Forget speed and location these things are art true one of a kind given what NASA had available to build these probes at the time, nothing short of amazing
This brings back lots of memories. I was a station operator at Goldstone Deep space tracking station. I was the the receiver operator at station 12 during the Voyager 2 Jupiter pass. Those were special times :)
Wow
That's awesome
This is still in our galaxy, after 40 years of travel. The universe is massive. I’m so jealous of the generation 10k years from now, they will experience interstellar travel in a way that we can’t even imagine.
As far as the Milky Way goes, the Voyagers are still in our own back yard! Only 60,960 years until they get anywhere close to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri!
That generation will consist of machines created by man. Mankind will have destroyed itself well before then.
Forget that theory! The next generation of this society will probaly go extinct because of their stupidity! They can't even determine if their a boy, girl, man or woman! If Americans keeps electing foolish politicians? They'll not just be a culture of confused , poorly educated fools, with low mentality? They'll end up marrying animals and breeding with them!😎
Mayyyyybe
This video was much more emotional than I ever thought it could be. Great work from everyone involved!
I know. Now I'm worried about the friggin things. I hope they look both ways before crossing this "interstellar highway."
Yes they did a good job of explaining these missions.
I know, right
I know right, I feel so bad for the spacecrafts, just orbiting forever long after human civilization has come and gone.
What a strange emotional reaction...in the final moments of the video I got waves of goose bumps and my eyes filled with tears. The though of the little voyagers traveling through interstellar space a half-million years from now (probably longer after human beings are extinct) was poignant, touching, and really powerful. Can't quite get it into words what I'm feeling...so powerful. What a great video!
Imagine the people who made this possible how they feel
I know exactly what you mean and feel the same way. I've been fascinated with information like this my whole life as it speaks to the eternity of our Spirits and our infinite natures. We all have something to look forward to after we die!
"Human Beings" are utterly amazing when they decide to do something, and work together instead of fighting with each other over nonsense. Absolutely amazing! Proud of you on this one Earth :)
Exactly! Far too much of us prefer to focus on our flaws as humans, thereby adding to our flaws.
Today; while waiting in the dentist office, I read that NASA declared rover Opportunity as "dead" after several months of failed attempts to communicate with it. My eyes welled up and my nose stung in response to emotional restraint. She was a machine that lasted an impressive15 years beyond its intended life span of 3 months. Saying "goodbye" to Opportunity reminded me of Voyagers 1&2 leaving the system for interstellar space. Even though I love Science Fiction, I will always be in awe of moments like this in Science Reality.
It pleases me to know that I'm not the only one getting emotional about these amazing space missions.
It is so weird how sad i feel for a machine. Proud also. Beautiful documentary
It's just a machine, and yet it is a piece of us travelling in the infinite space. So beautiful.
I felt the same by... sad yes, but more a yearning. As a species we will no longer exist in present form, if at all 500,000 years hence. Yet we will travel on to infinity-ish with our voices and visage embossed on gold records. Proud too like you. They might well be the two singular memories of our entire existence. It's way Vast and Deep when you ponder it.
I felt the same, we can relate to their loneliness far out there. So proud of those machines ❤️
I felt the same way too. Great comment. :(
I couldn't help the feeling of being brought almost to tears for the loneliness I felt on behalf of the Voyagers. Strange however, that they will very likely outlast us. Very proud of them.
My goodness, it is so humbling and awe inspiring to think that no matter what happens to the human race (and assuming nothing catastrophic happens to the Voyagers) there will always be a legacy of humanity traveling the cosmos till the end of time . . .
our memory is forever implanted in the collective conscience. We came from something before us, and whatever comes after us, will include a part of humanity. It's physics.
Well said
@@bigcountry5520 that was beautiful man
They are old friends from my childhood. watching them, listening to the progress and tales that they still tell moves me.
I get tears in my eyes and often down my cheeks, realizing the epic journey these two mighty adventurers mean to mankind.
My goodness, you have a beautiful mind. 😍
Published on my birthday. I was 37 when the Voyager's left the planet it's just amazing. Like those craft some of my sensors and detectors and shutting down. What a good life.
🎂🎁
Respect.
Robert Fletcher very touching. Godspeed friend.
I was eighteen when they departed on their journey.. You are going to be an octogenarian next year? Wow!!!
I'll be a hexagenarian next year. I do not expect to live as long as you have. Poor health has always been an issue and has taken its toll. Some are blessed with good health while others are not.
So I can empathize with the systemic degeneracy and consequential systemic failure as it is happening to me currently. i do understand that all too well. Whatever is not regenerate is degenerate as life is dynamic and there is no stasis in living organisms. You are either growing or your dying. Whatever is static is dead. And you are still here and so am I here. And i will be arriving somewhere but not here.
I agree. It has been a good life. It could have been worse...but...it was not. It is as it is and I will not have it any other way.
Happy B day
This video needs to be seen by today's programmers and hardware engineers. Just thinking of how instruments keep on working for decades should tell us the quality of engineering, design depth and the dedication by which all the subsystems were assembled. Simply in today's fast paced life, such design will be difficult to build and integrate. We also do not have the quality of the engineering teams required. As everything today boils down to MONEY. Anything that is not going to give returns in a few months or max a year simply does not pass the bill for bureaucrats to pass the bill.
Hats off to these REAL SCIENTISTS and their solar shaking experiments that are outliving those who designed it.
Yeah I agree about the hardware but I am a programmer and a program cannot fail. It will do whatever you programmed for a billion years. It cannot fail unless you change it...think about it.....
This was when soldering contained lead.
Today there is no need to build anything to last a lifetime because things don't get old, they get outdated or old-fashioned. When I was a little boy (now 66) we bought refrigerators with a lifetime guarantee. Is there anything today you would buy just because they may guarantee it to last a lifetime? However you are partly correct. There are things that should work for ten years, but last only until Monday.
As a MSC in computer sciences I fully agree
Totally Agreed With You............
"Carrying with them the only traces of our human existence"
That really hits hard.....
I actually scroll down and read this comment the exact time it was played on the video!
I don't know about anyone else, but this makes me proud to be a human.
Yeah yeah , I know, I'm crazy.
The Voyager project's were huge accomplishments, and to think, they're still transmitting information.
Something to be proud of.
Wow. Here I was thinking the Voyagers were now travelling outside the solar system - and to find out we won't technically leave it for another 30,000 years at current speed. If this doesn't give you a sense of how vast space is and just how truly small we are, I don't know what can. Very cool!
I thought so too, but didn't they just leave the solar system and entered interstellar space (as of 2012) and it is the next nearest star is 30,000 light years away
Rob Kaniak It will take a 30000 years to the point where other star's gravitation start to accelerate it.
That is what I have red.
Edit: Or maybe not.
@@RichardCowdrey they technically included the Oort cloud in the solar system. It lies outside the Heliosphere and is considered interstellar space but is still part of the system.
Thank you, Rob!
Richard Cowdrey not 30000 light years just 30000 years+ depending on which probes speed they are doing the maths on. The nearest star is Proxima Centuria 4.2 light years away but that is still 25,000,000,000,000 miles away
I became interested in science when Voyager I and Voyager II space crafts were launched. They told us by the time we get old it will leave the solar system.
I'm 55 now.
How am I supposed to return to normal mundane life after having my mind expanded to this degree?!
Exactly!
Hell yea! I had a same reaction.
don't, continue to expand
do not ,expand further...……………………….never be happy with stuff like sports and minless entertainment.
I find myself just as perplexed...I can't even fathom 1000 years let alone 225 million. Thats 225,000,000 years for a single orbit around our galactic plane at about 39,000mph... If this doesn't prove Rick is right that nothing matters and everything does...then I don't know what else to say.
What a womderful narration, i could listen to that voice forever..
I left school in 1971, space was a big thing then, conspiracies ruled...
Eric Von Daniken set the world on fire with his books and still today has never been convincingly discredited.
The mind boggles, a million miles per dayand still travelling when our sun goes cold... incredible...
Never been convincingly discredited?
Von Daniken is a laughing stock in the scientific community.
If someone argued Jupiter is a blob of milk and coffee mixing. Would you waste your time correcting them?
Same Here Danny! 🇺🇸
To think of it...There are now people working in this Voyager project that were not even born when they were launched
And that is why NASA is looking for younger people who know FORTRAN,COBOL and assembly language the language(so they can be taught the special GE variant used in Voyager) that the Voyagers were programmed in.
There are several articles that say that is some COBOL, I doubted that myself, as COBOL is a VERY resource inefficient which so not something you want on a spacecraft. No doubt on the Assembler and FORTRAN.
wouldn't be surprised if they were using FORTH
@@marcusdamberger WOW! I would've just replied "see 6:27"
@Marcus Damberger Your insights are appreciated.
I teared up a little , these guys launched when I was 7 yo
They will out live us all
To Infinity and Beyond,!
To be able to communicate over such a distance is mind blowing.
I agree
A true testament to what the best of Humanity is capable of. These 2 instruments have been traveling through space for 40+ years now, and are still functioning in many aspects, and expected to function for several more years yet..absolutely amazing! I was 19 and in College when they departed in 1977, and now I'm nearing retirement. so a "careers" worth of time has gone by, half a Human lifetime, or 2 generations to put it perspective. A very well done video, one of those that "rivets" your attention..one that that you can't take your eyes from...
I really liked everything about this video: the narration, the music and of course Voyager 1 and 2, silent ambassadors of mankind.
the distances in outer space are things the human mind cant wrap around. there is some sense of awe and amazement perhaps emotionalism attached to it. all those years is something that will humble any human
My Father an Electrical Design Engineer Sr at JPL helped to develop and designed the Argon engine and ion engines at JPL and worked on both Voyager and Mariner projects I know how to build the argon Engine by the way he told me both Voyagers should last longer than we will exist
This dokumentary is so damn good. Thank you. That tiny object all alone out there makes me so proud as a human its crazy. Hope the US or someone else will send a #3 out there with current tech just to keep the Voyager programm going. All the best from Germany
It's hard to wrap my head around the size of our universe. Great video
It's either massive or we're incredibly tiny.
I was completely caught off guard by how emotional this information made me. Incredible.
me too
My dad, who worked at JPL then, worked on both of these projects.
Can you imagine having actually touched these probes that will be around forever ???
Cool
Perhaps one of the most significant things mankind has ever done. Truly an honor for him (and you) I'm sure.
Tell your dad thank you for building these spacecrafts.
arklat very cool :)
Listening to this narration, I feel like a little child enchanted by the most mesmerizing of fairy tales. Unbelievably amazing.
I chose this topic as a junior in High school, 1982 . No one seemed to know what I was talking about. I have followed V 1&2 and have never been disappointed.
Horizon in 2019 was truly ..
Much more education in these endeavors should be in our public schools
this...somehow makes me proud to be a human
goshh Im crying 😭
WISHING ALL LUCK FOR THE TWO PROBES
You must be from a certain group of humans who are capable of engineering this amazing feat and that is a special group to belong to.. Not all humans are capable of this elevated thinking, and they are not the least bit impressed.
Agreed, there are those who will be proud of this amazing achievement and others who point out the Voyagers aren't in interstellar space as they haven't passed the Oort cloud!
In just 74 years, we went from the Wright brothers' first flight, to the Voyager spacecraft. That's only about one average human lifetime. Who knows what we might accomplish in the next 100 years?
how amout the next one million years...but i think long before that we will not exist as the same species
I remain hopeful. I was a teenager when these were launched. Now just a little over 40+ years later...TH-cam is being polluted with "Flat Earth" videos! (facepalm) Who'd have guessed?!? I just wish there was something close by for these craft to actually take pictures of! Kuiper Belt objects will be too dim to see anything useful,I'm guessing. Still,amazing to think about,Nice upload here,Thanks!
@@shanetune1 the existence of the flat earthers even after the achievements in technology that requires acceptance of the round earth, (including the internet) is an ironic tragedy...
1900 to 1970 saw the greatest technological advancements. 1970 to today....Not so much.
I've watched in AWE, the films and documentaries of the Voyager Space Craft.
But this is so well written, narrated and created. BRAVO :)*
Michael Kelleher She made a new video today
It is great finding these gems on TH-cam, fantantastic.
As a man born July 1977 it amazing to think when voyager 1 and voyager 2 were making their path towards the inner and outer planets I have been marking my own journey on planet earth. Now 42 years on both have just recently left our solar system and now journey through interstellar space it just boggles the mind how vast our solar system is never mind the milky way or universe
It was my 16th birthday , when Voyager 1 blasted off....I remember seeing the lift off on the 9 O’clock news
Every time I hear news about these amazing space crafts.....I feel a part of me goes with them.....utterly stupid thought.....but that how I feel....
Not stupid all. i can relate to what your saying and how you feel , its great that you watched it, i was born in 69 i was 8 i cant remember seeing any footage of voaygers leaving our planet i watch every update possible. 2025-2027 will be a very sad when we say goodbye to the voaygers i really hope we all celebrate their 50th birthday with them ! that would be great
Not stupid at all.
mp3ste1 I was born in 88, long after those crafts were launched and I feel similar. Maybe it’s pride in humanity and what we can accomplish or maybe it’s comfort in the knowledge that proof are existence is secure for billions of years to come.
No, the Voyagers will not be taking any more pictures.
VOYAGER 2’s cameras were turned off in 1989 to save power for other instruments that collect data on solar wind and interstellar space. VOYAGER 1’s cameras were turned off on Valentine’s Day 1990 after taking a picture of the famous “Pale Blue Dot” - also to save power for other instruments. The spacecraft will never again fly close enough to any astronomical object to take pictures. The Cosmos is just too dark and black, empty, and vast. Since Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, it will not come anywhere near another star for 40,000 years.
"Pale Blue Dot"...The great Carl Sagan would have been so proud of Voyagers 1 achievements.....the only man made object in interstellar space carrying the evidence of human existence long after this planet of ours ceases to exist...Thank you for this great video.
Whoever built these two voyagers, have left behind their fingerprints infinitely even when mankind are long gone. It is sad to see Voyager 1 & 2 part ways, in different direction. I wish they will both eventually meet path, like a long lost lovers, somewhere in the distance where nobody will ever know.
Night Owl ! You Romantic, you! Well said!
I once knew a guy that worked on some of the optics one on one of these, though he passed away over 20 years ago. I forget now if it was Voyager 1 or Voyager 2, I think it was Voyager 2.
Beautiful, just beautifully said
Excellent video, its somewhat comforting to know that a collection of images and sounds from our lifetimes will be forever preserved long after humanity has gone.
I as a taxpayer have definitely got my money's worth here.
HA HA HA HA HA , I STRONGLY AGREE !!!
I heard somewhere that the cost per taxpayer was around .76 cents. (taxpayers from the 70's, not today's current taxpayers) Now I call that great bang for the buck! That keeps on giving dividends! Think of all the science we leaned about our solar system because of the Voyager spacecraft's.
joshuaoha I would say we have indeed, hate to see them disappear into deep space, travel on old friends
Investing in science pays dividends way into the future!
+joshuaoha - I'm an Israeli which salutes the U.S citizens for funding one of the greatest human achievement- NASA.
The objects you send to other worlds are not only american objects, they are human ones. I deeply thank you for that.
I cry. Feel sorry for them....The most beautiful video of v1 and 2 i ever seen
It's amazing to think that snapshot of humanity from the late seventies will literally go on forever, the Voyager mission has to be up there as one of humanities greatest achievements, maximum kudos to the entire Voyager team.
Thank you Carol, fantastic delightful video, all this story about Voyager 1 and 2 impress me somehow emotively on the very strange way, all that vastness, infinity and distance hard to comprehend. Good luck Voyagers !!!
What an amazing story... Loved watching every minute of it... made me feel eerily insignificant and sad that we won't be around while it will continue to travel to infinity.
Sun Tzu II - Perfect!!
Terry Richardson It is sublime luck for us to be sharing this experience. What an amazing time for us to be here, living our lives on this incredible Blue Dot planet in the midst of the Milky Way! To be able to see what humans have accomplished during our infancy, is a remarkable gift. My birthday is on the 24th of this month, September. At age 9 I knew I loved the sky, astronomy, science fiction, and NASA, not to mention John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inspiring speech that helped humans reach our Moon. I make it to age 66 and hope for a few more, as my hunger for knowledge has not been sated.
After our short stay on this tiny speck in the universe, We may be able to follow our dreams and adventures through eternity. We will certainly see...
@ Terry Richardson @ Steven DiBernardo
Like I replied to another post to this video, I understand feeling small, but not insignificant. Really, when you think of the entire scope of scientific discovery, we humans have discerned an incredible amount and the fact that these two spectacularly successful probes, products of our quest for knowledge and inventiveness will have an insignificant but lasting impact on the galaxy uplifts my spirit. We can be amazing if we try to be.
I totally agree Steve, that the fact that we have lived through or been informed directly from this preliminary reconnaissance of our home solar system (starting with the Sputnik and Explorer probes, Apollo, the Mariners, Viking, this grand tour of Voyager, Spirit and Opportunity, Galileo, Cassini, Curiosity, ending with the Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres and New Horizons mission to Pluto) makes this a uniquely amazing time to have been alive on this planet ! Unless civilization collapses entirely, there will not be another time when we have explored for the first time, this much of our planetary neigborhood. And even if that does happen... there are these intrepid probes and the Pioneers and New Horizons, sailing for practically eternity, testaments to human achievement.
Big Respect! Thank you!
Voyager 1 and 2 wil be honored for ever🙌🌏🌎🌍🙌✨👽🙌
Absolutely beautiful and amazing.
We were married in 1977 and still going strong after all this time.
Just like the Voyagers though, there are bits that don't work so well now!
Keep on Treking....
Who else is feeling sad for the Voyagers?
Little, but proud af!
@@thisguy9042 Definitely a little bit of both.
I feel sad and proud.
they both need a hug
I don't. This is what they were built for, in a way, and thus one can hope that if they could feel anything, they'd feel proud of where they are now....
It will wander through the universe for eternity and have one message to the universe we existed.
I'm deeply touched by the video history, that is the history of my life. When Voyagers took off I was 14 years old. My best friend father worked in Madrid NASA antenna facilities, so we have a lot of information about NASA missions and about Voyagers, that were very hopeful at that time. But I never could imagine where these two small bits of human technology can go and show. Nowadays I'm an amateur astronomer, and every time I get some more information about Voyager, I'm amazed. Sincere thanks.
"Voyagers are destined, perhaps for all eternity, to wonder
the cosmos carrying with them the only traces of our human existence."
...get's me every time.
Die Voyager Raumsonden sind dazu bestimmt, vielleicht für alle Ewigkeit, den Kosmos zu durchqueren und die einzigen Spuren unserer menschlichen Existenz mit sich zu führen.
-deepL.com
The Voyagers defy belief. Whatever amazing gadgets Apple and Tesla attempt to amaze me with, none will ever compare to the two astonishing Voyagers and Pioneer that use 1970s technology, I’m truly staggered; and great video and commentary.
I'm an Aussie and so proud for our country to be a big part of this fantastic "voyage". May they continue with great success..!
I lived in the UK for 15 years at various times from 1982 thru to 2003 (my wife being English) always missed looking up and not being able to see the southern cross in all it's glory.
I watched both telecasts of "Stargazing Live" on the ABC with with Prof. Brian Cox and Julia Zemiro... Bloody brilliant..!
My son who is 24 now but asked for a telescope for his 21st so we have had great fun together looking at the night sky with his 8" Dobsonian. Amazing what you can see out there with something so simple.
As an Australian, I am also in absolute awe of the United States for its space program, the thing the 20th and 21st centuries will be most remembered for in a thousand years.
This video and narration is one of the most amazing things I have ever watched. I feel like a tiny particle in the sands of time. I wish there were more space coverage on our standard TV channels/documentaries etc. I also wish there was more info and explanation on the science behind orbits etc . I have started playing Kerbal space program and this has given me a massive interest in all things space related. thankyou again for the video
Amazing video, but wow, you really have to concentrate as you're watching just to keep everything in perspective. Mind boggling!
Bravo to the engineers ! Amazing what you did. I'm a space nerd and literally teared up thinking about losing signal from Voyager. I was 5 when it launched. Awesome stuff
These engineers were clearly ahead of their time. Now day it's hard to find a vehicle that'll last this long.
The latest rover that lasted 16 yrs on mars was the longest any of our space craft have ever operated.Other than the Hubble space telescope and the ISS.Both Voyagers are still in operation and were made in the 1970's.WoW! Our space program companies need to focus on good long lasting quality space craft.Not just pushing an agenda to go somewhere,completing a mission,while sacrificing that quality.If it's not made and programmed well by talented engineers it won't last long enough to get the job done and do even greater things afterwards.Just like the Voyagers are still doing now.All because quality mattered over cost.Not the other way around.
Once, in the early 1970's, I worked at a company which manufactured fuses. I was placed in-charge of QA work for a series of solid gold fuses destined for JPL. At the time, we were not told what program they would be used within, but before I left the company to return to school, I was asked to provide my signature in a box next to my name. I was given sketchy answers to my questions, which suggested the spacecraft were inter-planetary/inter-stellar craft of a very unique nature, and when Voyager I & II were launched a few years later in 1977, I knew my fuses were aboard those spacecraft. I suspect my name is engraved somewhere on the craft, as that was exactly what they did for everyone who had a hand in that program. Even if my signature is not present in space, it is interesting to know that my work is on a voyage into the universe which will only be interrupted if it is destroyed in some fashion. It would be very cool to have one of these craft be intercepted by another life form and then find out its source. Hopefully, they would be intelligent enough to decipher the clues as to where the craft originated as well as who the people were on that planet and what we look and sound like here on Earth.
That is really cool!
Outstanding scientific adventure and a very beautiful video. Many thanks.
It's just staggering to know that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will be the only evidence that humans ever existed. When they finally stop transmitting they will each be completely alone, devoid of any human contact yet continue their journey for millions of years to come. If Carol described the process of paint drying I'd listen to it.. :-)
Like two bottles cast into a great sea of time and space. They carry a message from the third rock from a sun, of life that lived there and a clever species that reached for the stars.
the ending part really teared me up together with that background music...
Thank you... superbly animated and narrated. What an unbelievable technological achievement... I wished the trillions spent on arms and military was instead spent in great scientific projects and discoveries.
Remembering circa 1980 when pictures of Jupiter came back, seemed so hi tech at the time. God we are so small
NASA scientist who made voyager deserves a great salute from the world, after our solar system dies our traces of humanity will still be alive.
Yes yes yes!
What an extraordinary interstellar journey the Voyagers are on. Am somewhat emotional, maybe because we mere humans never thought they would still be on the job for so long. Well done to the engineers and scientists. This is inspiring.
P.S, I visited CDSCC at Tidbinbilla in Canberra it was amazing.
I could not help but cry
There is no words
to travel alone for Eternity....
GODSPEED Voyager's
may GOD be with you
Holy crap,that was a truly beautiful piece, and Carol Meier's beautiful voice took it home. Absolutely amazing
Bon voyage voyager 1 & 2.. your existence will be remembered..
oh my god, that is the most amazing video I have seen in years. everything about it was perfect and well thought out
Human mind is more powerful. To imagine all such possibilities. Nice presentation and simple to understand. Thank you.
Ive been watching their journey all of my life. Im 45 yrs old and i stand in awe of what Voyager 1@2 have accomplished. Their trek through the darkness always brings light and hope that we as earthlings can reach the heavens. 🤓
trully epic
Thank you so much for this video Carol Meier. Never been able to understand why the sheer magnitude of the achievements of the Voyager program haven't been heralded as humanity at its very very best, full of hope, drama,romance, ambition and pure inquisitiveness.
Major congrats to mankind for such a great achievement. This was truly an awesome video & the narrator did a beautiful job..... God speed Voyager 1 & 2.... We thank you 👋🌎🛰
The vast distances and time are overwhelming. I'm glad that there might be some part of us floating around a billion years from now out there somewhere
I can't conceive of a billion years but when I started work at 4am I often 'met' the only other cars on the road at intersections. There is something about travels that causes them to meet. If a meeting is possible I think it will happen.
Amazing nicely wrapped emotional ending. Putting everything in perspective at a personal level that everyone can grasp. Bravo!
The final sentence sent a chill down my spine. Just to think of that... The Voyagers will be the legacy and proof of the existence of the intelligent human race when humans are no more. Isaac Newton is immortal in the truest sense.
Really bro really I had tears in my eyes....
I am born in 1960, it feels like me with other millions are *Privileged to have lived through this Space Odyssey* . *Salutes* to the Scientists who thought of all this for the future.
Launched in 1977.
With our technology of43 years ago.
Can you imagine if we released more today?
Yet society is more concerned with entertainment that knowledge so we pay football players 100m a year.
I just cannot cease to be impressed & amazed by the achievements of these crafts and their 'workers'. I am also extremely grateful to have access to all the data this video shares ...... such a wonderful time to be alive.
That said, for the life of me a simply cannot understand the 970 anomalies (as @ 2019), those anomalies being the 970 dislikes?!?!? What is there not to LOVE about this video and its awesome subject?!?
The Voyager program cost the average American Tax payer $1.25, NASA knew that was too much to ask so the cost was spread over five years. I can’t think of anything of greater value for such a low price!
I find it so annoying that people moan about the cost of space exploration, but they willingly accept the cost of bombs, missiles and bullets.
Beautifully written, with great graphics and well narrated. I couldn't stop listening so wonderful. We really should send up another one with today's technology. I know that that too would be outdated 50 years from now but still, good to keep going.
To think that every single person on the planet today will be long gone and these wonderful machines will still be out there.
We did such cool and inspirational things in the 70s. It's so disappointing that the discourse nowadays is all about discrediting science and political rancor.
I feel like a cry baby :(
Such a wonderful journey into the unknown.
When you think, just how much is invested in US Defence projects,,this was the singular worthwhile investment we can look upon as a great SUCCESS. Thank you Carl Sagan & Co..
The narration is World-class!
300 years to reach the Oort cloud and 30,000 years to pass through it!? That is insane
Nope, that is the true scale of our and every other star system.
I knew the technology onboard Voyager was old.....but.....I had NO IDEA it had an 8 track tape recorder. WOW!!
It was a reliable system for recording and playing back data.
Also Foghat.
As a side note-I worked in radio from the mid 80s to the mid 90s, and we used a derivative of the 8 track to play the music and commercials. They always cued to the right place, so slap a cart in, hit the play button, and it played
I worked on Mariner 1 and 2 the flyby to Mars in 1963 and that's what was used also (Tape recorder). I tested the Data Automation system on the craft. The tape recorders where used to record the TV cameras as it passed by Mars.
+M 5 Lucky you!!! how cool!!! 😀😀😀
It's got individual transistors in it too!
Well, since it was the early 70's what do you think it would have?
It’s amazing to think that we are still able to communicate with the spacecraft. When the power runs out in 2027 it will be a sad day, Voyager will continue its journey to eternity in our vast universe. Just amazing!
Wow....truly appreciate and respect to the scientists of the time to create such complex probes, just blows my mind, now this is indeed rocket science
Such an amazing documentary. What a calming voice!!!
I'm so impressed by the durability of these two instruments. Both in terms of what we could build of technology back when they where build on earth and while thinking about what they have experienced during their fleight.
Imagine being the builder of the Voyager and seing this video after a half century later.
If mankind continues to advance, without destroying ourselves, we may one day overtake these spacecraft.
Would be an interesting find, no doubt. But they would be *very* difficult to find, being so small. Perhaps the only way to track them hundreds of years from now would be by the decaying Plutonium.
Or they may be the last remaining evidence we ever existed.
Let us hope!
@@nmccw3245 thats pretty deep when you think about it
That's highly unlikely. The last few hundred (hundred!) years of incredible progress are an exception, as far as our history is concerned. Moreover, our technology is up against theorietical limits pretty much everywhere you look. I suspect we are going to face stagnation in the next few hundred years, partly caused by our own influence on our environment.
Just a fascinating documentary, and an extraordinary journey.
To think that something humans built will outlast our sun and solar system is mind-boggling.
No one had ever explained this better about Voyagers
I didn't want to come back but the video ended... Wow I lived thousands of years with the narrator.
Carol Meier's narration is so compelling, clear and exact
Some people just have that voice you like to hear.
sammydogg123 You took words right out of my mouth!
It gave me goosebumps, almost a romantic description and a feel of longing..... thank you
Forget speed and location these things are art true one of a kind given what NASA had available to build these probes at the time, nothing short of amazing
This is so beautiful and emotional narrative of interstellar travel. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am completely touched.