Space adventure and exploration should be for the benefit of all humankind, not the whimsy of a few.
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Space adventure and exploration should be for the benefit of all humankind, not the whimsy of a few.
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Voyager 1: A 1977 Time Capsule Still Exploring the Cosmos
Over 15 billion miles from Earth, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory, an 8-track tape recorder, and code written in FORTRAN. It's controlled using 50-year-old blueprints and takes 22 hours to receive a single command.
Why it still works?
Rugged, radiation-hardened parts
Simple, reliable design
Backup systems
Engineers who think like it’s 1977
A true marvel of human ingenuity.
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