We made it. So what it almost took us 40 years.

In a Breathtaking First, NASA’s Voyager 1 Exits the Solar System

PASADENA, Calif. — By today’s standards, the spacecraft’s technology is laughable: it carries an 8-track tape recorder and computers with one-240,000th the memory of a low-end iPhone. When it left Earth 36 years ago, it was designed as a four-year mission to Saturn, and everything after that was gravy.

But Voyager 1 has become — thrillingly — the Little Spacecraft That Could. On Thursday, scientists declared that it had become the first probe to exit the solar system, a breathtaking achievement that NASA could only fantasize about back when Voyager was launched in 1977, the same year “Star Wars” was released.

http://www.nytimes.com/20...l&_r=0

http://www.cnn.com/2013/0...nd-rocket/

NASA says this picture is for real -- A frog was captured on camera during last Friday's launch of the LADEE spacecraft from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

In the upper left corner, you can see the frog. The photo was taken with a remotely triggered camera.

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EPIC PHOTOBOMB!

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@ the frog.

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G3000 said:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/0...nd-rocket/

NASA says this picture is for real -- A frog was captured on camera during last Friday's launch of the LADEE spacecraft from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

In the upper left corner, you can see the frog. The photo was taken with a remotely triggered camera.

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EPIC PHOTOBOMB!

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Interesting.

It's amazing, isn't it? And this is what interstellar space sounds like.

Efan said:

It's amazing, isn't it? And this is what interstellar space sounds like.

that's just whut it sounded like in those old space movies from the fifties

Just a matter of time now...

In 2015, New Horizons will show us the first ever photos of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons. Looking forward to that.

I heard one scientist yesterday articulate the novelty of this event not in terms of distance, but matter, which was interesting. He pointed out that every material thing we've experienced to this point has been a product of our sun. We and all that we've known are quite literally stardust.

While we can deduce that the interstellar medium through which Voyager 1 currently travels is made of the familiar hydrogen, helium and "metals," for the first time we find ourselves in material surroundings of an immediate source uncommon to our own. That is: not stardust -- or at least not the dust of our star.

I think that's cool.

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G3000 said:

G3000 said:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/0...nd-rocket/

NASA says this picture is for real -- A frog was captured on camera during last Friday's launch of the LADEE spacecraft from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

In the upper left corner, you can see the frog. The photo was taken with a remotely triggered camera.

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EPIC PHOTOBOMB!

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I just started a thread for Rocket Frog!

hope they find the Gates of HELL

I've been out of our solar system many times

kpowers said:

I've been out of our solar system many times

only in bad comics

JoeTyler said:

kpowers said:

I've been out of our solar system many times

only in bad comics

Thats what you think. By the way the Alien invasion was once again stopped by me..................your welcome

kpowers said:

JoeTyler said:

only in bad comics

Thats what you think. By the way the Alien invasion was once again stopped by me..................your welcome

i thought it was Supes

JoeTyler said:

kpowers said:

Thats what you think. By the way the Alien invasion was once again stopped by me..................your welcome

i thought it was Supes

He helped out

Efan said:

It's amazing, isn't it? And this is what interstellar space sounds like.

This is the sound I am waiting to hear.

JoeTyler said:

hope they find the Gates of HELL

Efan said:

G3000 said:

noimageatall said:

morningsong said:

noimageatall said:

Just a matter of time now...

That always comes to mind. We'll see. With our luck it'll get ran into by some transport freighter or something.

...or a giant radioactive frog.

noimageatall said:

morningsong said:

noimageatall said: That always comes to mind. We'll see. With our luck it'll get ran into by some transport freighter or something.

...or a giant radioactive frog.

JoeTyler said:

hope they find the Gates of HELL

That would be in Compton, Ca.

Interesting 2 say the least.

Graycap23 said:

JoeTyler said:

hope they find the Gates of HELL

That would be in Compton, Ca.

overrated

PurpleJedi said:

noimageatall said:

...or a giant radioactive frog.

noimageatall said:

morningsong said:

noimageatall said: That always comes to mind. We'll see. With our luck it'll get ran into by some transport freighter or something.

...or a giant radioactive frog.

You wrong.

I think you just came up with syfy's next tv movie, The Giant Radioactive Space Frog.

morningsong said:

noimageatall said:

...or a giant radioactive frog.

You wrong.

I think you just came up with syfy's next tv movie, The Giant Radioactive Space Frog.

Well that HAS to be better than Sharknado!!!