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How did NASA lose and recover Voyager 2?

FOR SUZANNE DODD, Project Manager of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Mission, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are “sort of my first love – and true love”.

Her love for these vintage interstellar explorers, launched two weeks apart in 1977, has bloomed over many years. She began working on the Voyager mission in 1984, shortly after graduating from college, before leaving to work on other NASA projects, such as the CassiniHuygens space research mission. Then, in 2010 she returned to where her

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