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Dec 2020
41m 30s

Season 3, Episode 10: A Voyager’s View o...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled farther away from Earth than any human-made object. Candy Hansen and David Grinspoon talk about the Voyager mission, and its humbling perspective of our planet as a tiny blue dot in the blackness of space. 
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