Imagine it is the evening of August 25, 1989. You are partying with some scientists in California. Dancing on your right is Carl Sagan while on your left Chuck Berry is playing Johnny B. Goode. This is not a dream.
The celebration occurred a day after the Voyager 2 spacecraft completed its flyby of Neptune and began its mission into interstellar space.
Here’s more info about the flyby and the party.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Q: What leaves a crater 150-200 meters in size about 2.5 Kilometers from a launch pad?
A: One Russian Proton-M launch failure at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
H/T to Eric H.
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