That looks low-tech by today's standards.
Voyager 2 was launched August 20, 1977, thirty-five years ago Monday. And, like the Energizer bunny of TV-commercial fame, it just keeps going and going. ..It is the longest operating space exploration mission in history. 2 (launched 16 days before 1) is now 9 billion miles from the sun and heading south. 1, scheduled to be the first man-made object to leave the solar system and cross over into interstellar space, is 11 billion miles from the sun and headed north. The Voyagers are expected to keep going, and sending back data, until 2020 at least. Each Voyager carries with it a "Golden Record"
of the sights and sounds of Earth, in case intelligent life
ever comes across it. If Todd Akin comes across it the mission will be aborted.
