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for the past 30 years nasa's voyager

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twins have phoned home every day sending

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snapshots and stories that shape our

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view of the solar system pictures from

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voyager bring us into contact with

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worlds and

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and visions that are

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otherwise can only exist in our

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imagination but when you you can almost

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imagine looking out the cockpit of the

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spacecraft as you fly by a moon like io

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and say wow that's something new we've

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i think the main legacy of voyager is to

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in fact have opened up our solar system

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in a way

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which was not possible for before the

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space age it revealed all of our

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neighbors in the solar system

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i did not realize how much impact it

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would have when we flew by neptune

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people were standing in line at night at

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planetariums in order to be able to see

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the images coming in from voyager

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because they weren't on the web in those

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days there was no way

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looks like circle verger was an

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attention grabber that influenced two

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generations of popular culture the first

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thing that comes up is that star trek

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movie with a bald lady wandering around

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going vegeta

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when voyager launched in 1977 mars

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reconnaissance orbiter systems engineer

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tracy drain was just two years old the

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pictures that came back from voyager the

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pictures of saturn and jupiter and

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uranus

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that's the way i got to know the planets

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when i was a kid you know those were the

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photos that were there for me you know

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the instant i could even look around to

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see what space is all about

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the first thing i really remember

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uh was watching carl sagan's cosmos

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television series when i was a kid on

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our little black and white tv

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a few years ago i was training to

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operate deep space network radio

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telescopes and got to set up a

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communication pass for voyager

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i got to grow up and become a part of

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the mission that had inspired me to go

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into space exploration in the first

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place

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in 1990 engineers commanded voyager 1 to

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turn around and take a picture of home

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and we see the picture that voyager took

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from the edge of the solar system

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looking back at earth when earth is just

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a pale blue dot as carl sagan called it

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if that doesn't give you perspective on

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us and what goes on in our world i don't

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think anything will voyager 1 is now

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more than 9 billion miles from the sun

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the most distant spacecraft ever voyager

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2 is not far behind

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both are on the outer edge of the region

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influenced by our sun

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one day they will take the first steps

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into interstellar space

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the most important thing vorage has done

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is show how much there is the new

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frontiers of space how large that

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frontier is and how much there is to be

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done so that the the students who who

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come along

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and become scientists will still have

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many things to learn many things to

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discover

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each spacecraft carries a record

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with greetings from earth hello from the