Welcome to TechStuff, a production from I-Heart Radio.

Hey there and welcome to TechSt. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an

executive producer with I Heart Radio and I love all things Tech and today

we're going to listen to a classic episode titled, Tech Stuff Goes on a Voyage.

It's about the Voyager Program,

and this episode originally published

on April 24, 2013. The Voyager Program is one of those really fascinating space programs that I

absolutely loved learning about so I hope you guys enjoy this classic episode. The first thing we want about.

The first thing we wanted to talk about was kind of what was the purpose of the Voyager missions,

which by the way are still going right now.

But we wanted to talk about kind of the timeline of the missions and then we'll get into more details about the spacecraft itself and then follow that up with a discussion about the science that has been

discovered by these amazing spacecraft. So going back to May 1972 that's when

NASA begins to fund a mission that will involve designing, building, and launching spacecraft

that are meant to explore the outer planets of our solar system.

And even before this, back in 1965, an engineer named Gary Flandro noticed that sometime in the 1970s,

the outer planets would be aligned, planetary alignment in such a way as to make this very possible.

And this was, you know, the space program was going and booming,

and it was kind of an incredible alignment of the stars

that allowed us to write when we had money to do this stuff.

Right, so I mean that planetary alignment is really what makes the Voyager missions possible

because you know if the if the planets were in such an alignment so that let's say that

misalignment well they're still aligned properly they're just not viable for us to

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