skuaAIUI it's both the Voyager spacecraft which were sent out with a voice recording of a former Nazi stormtrooper & officer who worked in the capacity of officer in the Balkans some 200m metres from an active mass killing location. He later lied about his war service and became head of the United Nations.
In Saturn's RingsToday would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. His immeasurable impact grows over time. I read "Cosmos" as a child and discovered Saturn's moon Titan. Titan's mystery that led me to follow the Cassini mission and the entire reason the film was made. We were lucky to get permission from his widow and co-author Ann Druyan dedicate the film to him. His famous Pale Blue Dot quote resonates more and more as time moves on.
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Doug Bostrom"“It is difficult to command Voyager," Dodd said. "We don't have any type of simulator for this. We don't have any hardware simulator. We don't have any software simulator ... There's no simulator with the FDS, no hardware where we can try it on the ground first before we send it. So that makes people more cautious, and it's a balance between getting commanding right and taking risks.""
Yikes.
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Cross your fingers for Voyager 1 and engineers working a nasty problem.
Holiday season turns into 46-hour cycles of send command, wait.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/14/engineers_work_to_fix_voyager/
This account has movedVoyager spacecraft
Man and woman etched on it
Naked with a wave
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