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NASA's Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as Voyager Mission Nears Its End
"It's kind of like losing a best friend."
The twin Voyager spacecraft were to travel where no other mission had gone before, exploring what lies outside the vast bubble that surrounds our solar system, beyond the influence of our host star. It was a mix of bringing in people who really knew and understood that computer—one of the retirees really understands the flight data system computer—and subject matter experts, and we would get them up to speed and have them work with the Voyager team. Spilker explains the tradition of lucky peanuts, which date back to the Ranger Project in the 1960’s, at a gathering in Von Karman Auditorium at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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