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Dear Reader,
In November, NASA lost touch with the Voyager 1 spacecraft, whose images transmitted to Earth on February 14, 1990, inspired Sagan’s profound words. But good news! In April, thanks to a clever workaround by NASA’s big brains, contact was restored.
Voyager 1 has lasted a long time in our fickle human consciousness. The Pale Blue Dot, a picture of the Earth taken on that fateful day in 1990, when Voyager 1 was a distance of 3.7 billion miles from the sun, continues to inspire — including the name of Bluedot Living, which is dedicated to and encouraged by Sagan’s insistence that we have a responsibility toward each other, and “to preserve and cherish” our
home.
“Now more than 15 billion miles away, Voyager 1 is the farthest human object, and continues to speed away from us at approximately 38,000 miles per hour,” Scientific American reports. Long may it continue to transmit images. Long live Voyager 1.
Humbly,
Dot
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