Celebrating 35 Years of the Voyager Mission

Voyagers 1 and 2 just reached 35 years of travel in space.  What a great reason to celebrate! Join Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone, Ann Druyan, Emily Lakdawalla and Robert Picardo in this special live edition of our show.  Bill Nye reports on a separate celebration in London and on the International Space Station, and Bruce Betts is back in fine form with Mat Kaplan for this week’s What’s Up.

Related Links

• Voyager Celebration Video
• Voyager Mission Site
• Voyager Golden Record
• Bill Nye Hosts YouTube Space Lab

Trivia Contest

This week's prize is an engraved Fisher Space Pen.

This week's question:
What is the south pole star of Mercury?

To submit your answer:
Send an email no later than Monday, September 24, at 2 pm Pacific time to [email protected] containing:

This week's question:
Who was Gale Crater named after and where was he from?

Answer:
The answer will be revealed next week.

Question from the week before:
What was the first spacecraft to successfully fly by a planet, and what happened to its identical sister spacecraft?

Answer:
Mariner 2 successfully returned data from Venus.  Mariner 1 was destroyed shortly after launch.