"Barring hardware failure, Voyager I and II boast enough power and communications capability to keep radioing back to Earth until 2020, NASA says."
It's astounding what we were able to accomplish in the 1970's. We think of that time as "before personal computers", where handheld calculators had all of four or five functions, and "Pong" was the great hit of entertainment. Yet, at that time, we were launching probes into space that are continuing to work to this day.
The only other NASA achievements that have worked this well are the Martian rovers and the Martian mapping satellite. And it took a lotta tries before we got that right...
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