It took a lot of work to launch humanity’s greatest message into space

“What I’ve found is if you look backward too often, that becomes your excuse, your evidence that you care,” said astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, when asked about the importance of this month’s 40th anniversary of the Voyager missions during a conversation at his office the Hayden Planetarium at American Museum of Natural History. 

“But then, nothing happens going forward.”

Despite Tyson’s warning about spending too much time in the past, the magnitude of Voyager as a scientific achievement is the kind of thing that nevertheless demands recognition. That’s on the way, in the form of the new documentary The Farthest on PBS.  Read more…

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