NASA Invites Public to Journey Toward Interstellar Space

Received a note from William which I will pass on to you all.
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Mr. Kellogg: Looking forward to this update Thursday morning at Nasa Headquarters. 

Bill

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-124b
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-124b
NASA Invites Public to Journey Toward Interstellar Space

April 26, 2011
NASA will hold a special NASA Science Update at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, April 28, to discuss the unprecedented journey of NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft to the edge of our solar system.

The event will be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington and will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov . In addition, the event will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat box available, at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .

After 33 years in space, the spacecraft are still operating and returning data from about 16 billion kilometers (10 billion miles) away from our sun. The Voyagers also carry a collection of images and sounds from Earth as a message to possible life elsewhere in the galaxy.

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More URLs with the same information.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/apr/HQ_M11-084_Voyager_Update.html
MEDIA ADVISORY : M11-084

NASA Invites Public To Take A Journey Toward Interstellar Space

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a special Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 28, to discuss the unprecedented journey of NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft to the edge of our solar system.

The event will be held in NASA headquarters' Webb auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed at: http://www.nasa.gov  

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OK, tell them what your are going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told them.  :-)
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20110426.html
NASA Invites Public to Journey Toward Interstellar Space
NASA will hold a special NASA Science Update at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, April 28, to discuss the unprecedented journey of NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft to the edge of our solar system.

The event will be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington and will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov . In addition, the event will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat box available, at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .

After 33 years in space, the spacecraft are still operating and returning data from about 16 billion kilometers (10 billion miles) away from our sun. The Voyagers also carry a collection of images and sounds from Earth as a message to possible life elsewhere in the galaxy.

The participants are:
-- Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist and professor of physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Ann Druyan, creative director, Voyager Interstellar Message Project; Carl Sagan's co-author and widow
-- Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Merav Opher, Voyager guest investigator and assistant professor of astronomy, Boston University

For more information about the Voyager mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/voyager .
For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv .

Jia-Rui C. Cook 818-354-0850

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov ------------------------------------------

And to think the Voyager mission almost got terminated for lack of funding.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/04/27/voyager-saved-for-now/

And now down here we can forget about listening for aliens.
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http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/04/26/seti-allen-array-shut-down/
The search for alien life takes a hit as Earth's ears are powered down

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NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline

We are still getting reports from the Voyager spacecraft.
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/weekly-reports/index.htm

and we see recent report from Voyager 1 being reported.
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-415
NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline
December 13, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. – The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.

Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 17.4 billion kilometers (10.8 billion miles) from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where the velocity of the hot ionized gas, or plasma, emanating directly outward from the sun has slowed to zero. Scientists suspect the solar wind has been turned sideways by the pressure from the interstellar wind in the region between stars.

The event is a major milestone in Voyager 1's passage through the heliosheath, the turbulent outer shell of the sun's sphere of influence, and the spacecraft's upcoming departure from our solar system.

"The solar wind has turned the corner," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. "Voyager 1 is getting close to interstellar space."
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And of course at NASA.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/dec/HQ_10-334_Voyager_Voyages.html
RELEASE : 10-334

 

NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline En Route To Interstellar Space

PASADENA, Calif. -- The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.

Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 10.8 billion miles from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where the velocity of the hot ionized gas, or plasma, emanating directly outward from the sun has slowed to zero. Scientists suspect the solar wind has been turned sideways by the pressure from the interstellar wind in the region between stars.

The event is a major milestone in Voyager 1's passage through the heliosheath, the turbulent outer shell of the sun's sphere of influence, and the spacecraft's upcoming departure from our solar system.

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The Voyagers' mission.
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http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/mission.html

The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft continue exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. In the 33rd year after their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the Sun than Pluto. Voyager 1 and 2 are now in the "Heliosheath" - the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network (DSN).

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/images/bow_shock2_s.jpg

The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there -- such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings -- the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond.

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Budget cuts can put these long lasting missions in jeopardy so we are lucky to still be hearing from the Voyagers.
You may remember back in 2005 when we wanted to go the Moon, the Voyager mission came under the threat of being terminated because there wasn't enough money to do everything.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23500-2005Apr3.html
Historic Voyager Mission May Lose Its Funding

By Guy Gugliotta

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 4, 2005; Page A08

In a cost-cutting move prompted by President Bush's moon-Mars initiative, NASA could summarily put an end to Voyager, the legendary 28-year mission that has sent a spacecraft farther from Earth than any object ever made by humans.
The probable October shutdown of a program that currently costs $4.2 million a year has caused consternation among scientists who have shepherded the twin Voyager probes on flybys of four planets and an epic journey to the frontier of interstellar space.

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Political history tends to repeat itself, yes.  Don't have the money to go to the Moon so off with its head.
So will there ever be a business plan that will make it profitable to go to space further than LEO?
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Will be watching to see what happens in the new year of 2011.

Thanks for looking up with me.
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