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Voyager 1 passes milestone
Spaceflight Now ^
| 8/20/2006
| NASA/JPL
Posted on 08/21/2006 8:49:57 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
There are actual milestones 9.3 Billion miles from the sun? Do they have them every mile?
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:54:26 PM PDT
by
keithtoo
(Israeli defense strategy "Cogito Ergo Boom!")
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Would have loved to have had the govt's .45 cents per mile for that trip. Seriously that is fabulous.
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:54:57 PM PDT
by
shankbear
To: keithtoo
The mile stone part is that it is 100 astronomical units from the sun - 100 times the distance the earth is from the sun.
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:57:02 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Voyager 1 should be sending back signals at least until 2020.
Still, a million miles per day is not even Warp 2.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:57:50 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: shankbear
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:57:54 PM PDT
by
Bender2
(Gad! The inmates have control... And I'm trying to quit smoking!)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:58:03 PM PDT
by
raygun
(Whenever I see U.N. blue helmets I feel like laughing and puking at the same time.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
V'Ger requests the information!!!
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:58:24 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
To: shankbear
Amazing...
are we there yet?
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posted on
08/21/2006 8:58:46 PM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(An undefeated enemy is still an enemy.......war has a purpose.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Voyager 1 is now at the outer edge of our solar system, in an area called the heliosheath, the zone where the sun's influence wanes. Great. Soon to be entering Klingon space I'm sure.
Does Voyager really travel one million miles per day? Seems a tad on the high side.
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posted on
08/21/2006 9:00:44 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Rabid ethnicist.)
To: shankbear
sorry, but the government doesn't pay travel pay when the travel is in a government vehicle.
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posted on
08/21/2006 9:01:36 PM PDT
by
Lokibob
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Thanks for posting. My Dad managed the program at GE to build the RTGs that power the Voyager spacecraft. The project was originally "Mariner Jupiter Saturn." I remember all the incredible tests his team did to make sure the plutonium powered generators could survive a launch crash.
To: Lokibob
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Are we getting pictures or just radio or whatever wave/pings that merely say .. "I'm still here" ??
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posted on
08/21/2006 9:03:59 PM PDT
by
knarf
(Someone stole my tagline !! It was here a minute ago .. /8^( ...)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Is that the one with the message from Kurt Waldheim in it?
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
V'Ger must evolve.
Its knowledge has
reached the limits of
this universe and
it must evolve.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Bump, BTTT, RamaLamaDingDong, as a bookmark. And what have the muzzies done lately?
To: LdSentinal
Still, a million miles per day is not even Warp 2. Well...since you mentioned it...
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posted on
08/21/2006 9:07:54 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Dawn of light...lying between a silence and sold sources...)
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