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🗓️ 19 September 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Why were the Voyager missions so important? Where are they now, and where are they going? What is their ultimate fate? And that Golden Record…good idea or bad idea? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Space Man. I'm your host Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. You know how this show works. But let's travel out there one more time. You go online to Twitter, Facebook. Use the hashtag Ask a Spaceman |
0:22.3 | and send some questions and I will find them. You can also follow me directly on Twitter and Facebook. |
0:26.3 | That name is at Paul Matt Sutter. You can also go to the website, askuspaceman.com, |
0:31.9 | ask a spaceman at gmail.com, YouTube.com slash Paul M. Sutter, so many ways to get questions, |
0:36.3 | but really just one way to answer them. |
0:38.4 | And that is through this show. We have one simple goal with this show. That is complete knowledge |
0:44.3 | of time and space. And on the road to complete knowledge of time and space, we have today's |
0:49.1 | questions. Rob H via Facebook asking, what awaits the Voyager mission? Ryan S. via email, what is the sun's motion through the galaxy in the direction of Voyager? |
0:59.9 | Wow. |
1:00.9 | Voyager probes. |
1:02.8 | This is historic. |
1:04.1 | I'm recording this episode, by the way, near the 40th anniversary of their launch. |
1:10.0 | And it's hard to describe just how groundbreaking. Space breaking? |
1:17.7 | Let's go with space breaking. It's hard to describe just how space breaking the Voyager missions were. |
1:23.1 | And they happened at just the right time. It is such a cosmic coincidence, a lucky break, at just the time that we were able to actually |
1:34.0 | develop interstellar spacecraft and launch them outside of the Earth's gravity, well, |
1:41.1 | send them into space, pack them with scientific gear that could take pictures, |
1:46.0 | that could carry instruments to detect other things, be able to power it and be able to |
1:50.7 | communicate back with Earth. |
1:52.0 | I mean, think of all the technologies that are packed into a spacecraft and how 10 years before, |
1:59.7 | 20 years before, 50 years before, 100 years before, |
2:03.0 | that kind of package wouldn't just be impossible, it'd be inconceivable. |
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