Message wanted to go far out in space
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NASA has sought from the public for a message to beam far, far out into space to the probe Voyager 1 in time for the 40th anniversary of its launch.
The US space agency wants input via social media, and the public will vote on what short message we on Earth should send to the intrepid, overachieving little space traveler.
NASA said on its website that people had until yesterday to make submissions of a maximum of 60 characters. NASA, its Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Voyager team will cull them, and the public will vote to pick the winner to send to Voyager 1 on September 5.
That probe is now almost 13 billion miles from Earth. It is the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space. NASA defines this as beginning where the sun’s flow of material and its magnetic field stop affecting its surroundings.
Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977, and a sister ship, Voyager 2, went up about two weeks earlier. The mission of both was study the solar system’s giant, gaseous outer planets.
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