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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2099245,00.html

After 34 Years in Space, the Voyager Spacecraft Fly On — and On and On

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But then, of course, there are the Voyager spacecraft. It was in August and September of 1977 — when Jimmy Carter was in the White House, "Best of My Love" was the No. 1 song, Laverne & Shirley the No. 1 show, and the Dow was headed for a year-end close of 831 — that Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched.

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But the ships' primary missions succeeded beyond the giddiest predictions of the engineers who built them. And today, improbably, those missions continue, with the creaky old spacecraft adding 330 million miles (530 million km) to their odometers every year — each mile constituting a new distance record for the reach of the human species.
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Article does continue - - pretty good article too.

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