PBS Special - Voyager in Space - September 6th
The Farthest – Voyager in Space
September 6th, 7:00 pm
At the Pretlow Planetarium
In Celebration of 40th Anniversary of the Voyager Launch, PBS has released a two hour special about NASA’s historic Voyager mission. With participation from more than 20 of the original and current mission scientists, engineers and team members, THE FARTHEST – VOYAGER IN SPACE tells captivating tales of one of humanity’s greatest achievements in exploration. From supermarket aluminum foil added at the last minute to protect the craft from radiation; to the near disasters at launch; to the emergency maneuvers to fix a crucial frozen instrument platform, viewers get a sense of how difficult—and rewarding—space exploration can be.
After completing its mission to Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 turned its camera inward and, at the insistence of the eloquent and insightful astronomer Carl Sagan, took one of the most famous images of Earth ever captured. As described by Sagan in the film, the image showed Earth as a pale blue dot on which “everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives …on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
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Posted By: Justin Mason
Date: Tue Sep 05 08:54:55 EDT 2017