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Nov 2023
9m 34s

15 billion miles from home -- and still ...

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We're going to space! Well, actually, we're going to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to check in with the Voyager team.

It's been forty-six years since Voyager 1 and 2 launched and we're still in contact! We'll talk with Linda Spilker and Suzanne Dodd, who can take us from the 70's and 80's right up to today. What have the Voyager probes seen? What have they heard? These two spacecraft are the most distant human-made objects from Earth.

This episode is our season finale, but let Mike know what you want him to get a closer look at next season: doyouworkhere@knxnews.com

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