MABFAN's Musings - This Day in History, 1977: Voyager 1 Launched

08:27 am September 5th, 2007




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	This Day in History, 1977: Voyager 1 Launched
	On September 5, 1977, thirty years ago today, Voyager 1 began its journey to explore our solar system. Today, it continues to fly through space, bringing a message of humanity's existence to the stars. I remember the excitement of growing up during this mission, as we got to learn about the planets of the outer solar system and what they looked like up close. The first good pictures of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all came from the Voyager missions. Godspeed, Voyager 1. (For more information, see NASA's Website on Voyager.) Tags: astronomy, history, personal, science, space

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	From: jamietr	Date: September 5th, 2007 01:05 pm (UTC)		(link)

I can remember back in 1978 or 1979 (probably the latter) clipping Voyager images of Jupiter from the newspaper into a scrapbook I was keeping. I was 6 or 7 years old at the time and it really was exciting.

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	From: mckitterick	Date: September 5th, 2007 01:10 pm (UTC)		(link)

It was such an exciting time when those Earth-based photos of the big planets were suddenly replaced with high-res images revealing details we would never have imagined. Jupiter has a ring! Saturn has tiny ice moons! And all those images of the moons... good stuff.

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	From: jenwrites	Date: September 5th, 2007 04:24 pm (UTC)		(link)

I was so thrilled by the Voyager program when I was young. I was sure that this was just the beginning of an ever-accelerating space program. *sigh* I thought we'd have done so much more by now.

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	From: lordavon	Date: September 6th, 2007 02:31 am (UTC)		(link)

Oh, Voyager.

How I still love thee.

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	From: surakofb5	Date: September 6th, 2007 02:41 am (UTC)		(link)

Oh, wow. It's been a long time. I somehow missed the Jupiter pictures (I probably didn't watch the news at that age), but I remember seeing the first Saturn pictures on the news and being fascinated and awe-struck.

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	From: chaos_wrangler	Date: September 6th, 2007 02:57 am (UTC)		(link)

On September 5, 2007, thirty years ago today, Voyager 1 began ...

Shouldn't that be "On September 5, 1977..."?

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	From: mabfan	Date: September 6th, 2007 10:23 am (UTC)		(link)

Fixed. Thanks.

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