Voyager Enters Solar System's Final Frontier

[Swede]

Voyager has entered the final lap on its race to the edge of interstellar space, as it begins exploring the solar system's final frontier," said Dr. Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which built and operates Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/voyager_agu.html

[whistle]

1. And the last $100 check on the Voyager bank account bounced

[Jara sang]

2. Go V'ger!

Yeah!

[shoelace414]

3. wasn't V'ger Voyager 6?

[Jara sang]

4. Shoots, I thought it was I or II

[Deep13]

5. Nerd alert! Nerd alert!

:woohoo:
Are you a trecker or a treckie?

Yeah, in Star Trek the Barely Moving Picture, V'ger is Voyager 6. It dissapeared into "what they used to call a black hole."

There were only two Voyagers, of course. Only two were planned. The purpose of having two was for redundancy.

In the film series, From the Earth to the Moon, in the episode about Apollo 13, there is a reference to some crazy plan to send a probe to Neptune. That's Voyager.

[shoelace414]

7. umm. I like the show?

Voyager 2 was actually launched before Voyager 1

[Deep13]

8. forgot about that

V1 was on a faster track, though, so it got to Jupiter first. V2 went on to Uranus and Neptune, but V1 did not because its course was changed to get a good look at Titan.

[LibInternationalist]

6. We need more Voyagers

how could anyone not be inspired by this?

[Deep13]

9. Voyager was a jack of all trades.

Subsequent missions have been specialized. Presently, Cassini is orbiting Saturn and has made some impressive discoveries including the first ever images of the surface of Titan. Of course Magellan made high resolution images of Venus. We have made great strides in our ability to crash on Mars. :7 Seriously, much has been learned there, most notably that Mars was once very wet. Messanger is going to Mercury and New Horizons will be launched to Pluto soon. Also, we must not overlook the discoveries made in solar science.