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Where is Voyager 1 now? Repairs bring space probe back online as journey nears 50 years
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoAs part of their one-way mission, both Voyager spacecraft also carry copies of the “Golden Records,”...
Let’s Give It Up for Voyager 1, NASA’s Longest-Running Mission
Esquire· 7 hours agoThe venerable spacecraft launched in 1977 and passed into interstellar space in 2012, becoming the...
Godspeed, Ed Stone—the Man Who Showed Us the Solar System
Time via AOL· 6 days agoIt is the Voyagers, however, for which he is best known. The ships famously carry golden...
Voyager 1 is back to life in interstellar space, but for how long?
Washington Post· 5 days agoNASA engineers have succeeded in breathing new life into Voyager 1, the spacecraft launched in 1977...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 7 hours agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window into the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising a pair of spindly, plutonium-powered ...
Cormac McCarthy Did Not Talk Craft, With One Surprising Exception
New York Times· 3 days agoNotoriously reluctant to give advice, the author offered his views, and meticulous edits, to a...
Guy Mainella, whose ‘Calling All Sports’ ushered sports talk radio into Boston, dies at 85 - The...
The Boston Globe· 6 days agoBill Mazer at WNBC in New York is credited with starting the genre in 1964 — but it was a new format...
Voyager 1 conducts science ops for first time after six-months pause
Interesting Engineering· 2 days agoBoth voyagers are powered by nuclear batteries or radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Voyager 1...
After Months of Glitches and Gradual Fixes, Voyager 1 Is Fully Operational Once Again
Smithsonian Magazine· 15 hours agoAfter a technical malfunction late last year rendered all of its subsequent readings as useless, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—which has spent nearly a half-century in space—has been brought back ...
Faith & Values: You matter a lot. Just not that much.
Daily Press· 2 days agoMy sermon prep on Job 38 this past Sunday sent me off to discover humanity’s proper place in the...