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4 unusual facts about Voyager program


Core dump

The NASA Voyager program were probably the first craft to routinely utilize the core dump feature in the Deep Space segment.

Fault-tolerant computer system

NASA's first machine went into a space observatory, and their second attempt, the JSTAR computer, was used in Voyager.

Here Comes the Sun

Astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan had wanted the song to be included on the Voyager Golden Record, copies of which were attached to both spacecraft of the Voyager program to provide any entity that recovered them a representative sample of human civilization.

Robert E. Brown

In 1977, NASA launched the space probe Voyager with a gold-plated copper record featuring sounds and images of life and culture on Earth.


William Hayward Pickering

At the time of his retirement as director, in 1976, the Voyager missions were about to launch on tours of the outer planets and Viking 1 was on its way to land on Mars.


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