Voyager 1 passes milestone

Spaceflight Now ^ | 8/20/2006 | NASA/JPL

[GSlob]

"sorry, but the government doesn't pay travel pay when the travel is in a government vehicle."
Well, then per diem.

[ChadGore]

Re: There are actual milestones 9.3 Billion miles from the sun?

Wow, those burma shave signs are everywhere.

[KellyAdmirer]

But when ending a mission and cruising to the next, Kirk always said, "Warp Factor Two, Mr. Sulu." It would have taken them months to find Zephram Cochran at those speeds!

[hosepipe]

[ V'Ger requests the information!!! ]

V'Ger is looking for "God"... and God is observeing V'Ger..

Could prompt a poem... or some prose..

[Thinkin' Gal]

Voyager 1 passes milestone

Yikes. Is that like an oversized kidney stone?

[JRandomFreeper]

I'd settle for per-deim, at the rate set on the launch date to today. But I wouldn't be able to provide receipts. What is the O-Conus COLA for deep space?

/johnny

[DadOfTwoMarines]

I wonder who get the frequent flyer miles??

[Virginia-American]

(( ping ))

[Larry Lucido]

If you miss your exit at that speed you're screwed.

[Ignatz]

Surely by now we could adapt that technology to provide power for us mere earthlings?

[Calvin Locke]

Seems a tad on the high side.

That's 41,666.66666667/mph.

Kinda slow, imho, given plain old orbital speeds.

[william clark]

This prompts me to ask a question that occasionally springs to my mind. I just saw an astronomy presentation, and one image among the photos was of the Milky Way galaxy, with an arrow indicating the Earth's position in it.

The context of this image suggested that it, too, was a photograph. However, how can that possibly be the case if only a couple of manmade objects have even made it outside the bounds of our solar system? Is what I saw merely an artist's conception that wasn't identified as such? I'm sure this will seem like a stupid question to some, but it's just one of those things I've never had the opportunity to ask anyone about. If it is actually a photo, then how was the image captured?

[KarlInOhio]

It was either an artist's conception or a picture of another galaxy which Reuters mislabled as ours.

[WFTR]

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.

That's neat that your father was able to be part of that team. That's quite an honor.

Bill

[JRios1968]

Great. Soon to be entering Klingon space I'm sure.

This will be its last transmission, I am sure...

Klaatu Barada Nikto!

[RebelTex]

"There are actual milestones 9.3 Billion miles from the sun? Do they have them every mile?"

A marker for every mile,
to busy minds of every chil'
learning to count, add and subtract
makes them bright and that's a fact,
keeping parents sane all the while.
Burma Shave

[Not now, Not ever!]

Thank your dad for me.

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

Thanks for the warp chart post ... totally awesome.

You know I followed all of the Star Trek series until the last one (Star Trek Voyager). They really blew it with that one in terms of believability. They would have you believe that when the Federation starship USS Voyager was developed, star travel had become so far advanced that even a woman could be captain.

Just ruined it in terms of believability.

[LdSentinal]

Will we ever find three-breasted females in the Universe?

[JRios1968]

They got the pic from a postcard from an alien...