Happy birthday, Voyager.

mabfan points out an anniversary that I would have been sorry to miss: Today is the 30th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1.

I grew up with the Voyager project. I was 6 (yes, now you know how old I am!) when Voyager 1 launched. I remember reading about the Jupiter and Saturn flybys in the paper. Later on, I got to work with actual Voyager 2 data from Saturn in a mentorship sort of thing with Larry Esposito at the University of Colorado. The Voyager 2 Uranus closest encounter came just days before the Challenger disaster. I got to see photos from that when a Denver Post reporter came to our school district planetarium group and showed them to us. (And god bless you, Jim Moravec, wherever you are, for that group.) The CU planetarium showed live feeds from JPL during the Neptune encounter.

The Voyager missions strongly fed my childhood love of astronomy, and I hope I never lose the ability to be wonderstruck by space as I was by those amazing pictures as they came in.

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