The Voyager Spacecraft

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✨Sleepy History is written and narrated by humans. ✨Narrated By: Simon Mattacks Written By: Alexandra Turney Find out how the notorious far-right party rose to power under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, turning Germany into a dictatorship by 1934.Includes mentions of: Politics, ...  Show more

Two of the most remarkable spacecraft ever launched are the stars of this month’s episode: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Izzie and Dr Becky talk to Dr Jamie Rankin, the mission’s current Deputy project scientist, and editor Richard gets to chat to Ann Druyan, the original Creative Dir ...  Show more

The Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled farther away from Earth than any human-made object. Candy Hansen and David Grinspoon talk about the Voyager mission, and its humbling perspective of our planet as a tiny blue dot in the blackness of space. 

If you were curating a mixtape that might be heard by aliens billions of years from now - but definitely would be seen by your fellow Earthlings - what would you put on it? In 1977, two Voyager spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on a journey that would take them ...