Voyager Made the Solar System a Real Place
Forty years later, a mission scientist remembers a time of constant discovery.
In the final days of summer in 1977, twin spacecrafts left Earth to explore the solar system. For more than a year, Voyager 1 and 2 quietly navigated space, winding their way through the asteroid belt beyond Mars and toward their first target, Jupiter. Then in early 1979, as though someone removed the cap from a fire hydrant, a stream of information burst back toward Earth. Voyager 1journalist in March 1979. Each new photo seemed more remarkable, more breathtaking, more pioneering than the last.
