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One light day: Voyager's long farewell

· 36 min · S1 E302

Episode One light day: Voyager's long farewell

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The Voyager space probe is sailing through space, far beyond earth's solar system. It is humanity's most distant messenger. And then last year it fell silent. NASA's scientists somehow navigated a 15 billion mile hurdle to bring it back online. This is the story of how and why.

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