“Exploring Space, Discovering Ourselves: Personal Reflections on the Voyager Missions”
“Exploring Space, Discovering Ourselves: Personal Reflections on the Voyager Missions” I have been talking about them in almost all of my initial English Classes just to relate those things to the importance of communication, and while I spoke today too, I felt I needed to write about them somehow. As a big admirer of space, nightsky, planets, moons and universe, I felt like writing this small piece on one of my favourites, and one of humanity's greatest achievements, The Voyager Missions of NASA. So here it is: In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft— Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 —almost like sending a pair of explorers into the great unknown. At first, their mission was simple: fly by the outer planets, take pictures, and beam home what they found. But the timing was remarkable, because the planets were aligned in such a rare way that the Voyagers could slingshot from one to the next using their gravity. What came back was nothing short of breathtaking. We saw Jupiter’s stormy face an...