{"id":1740,"date":"2013-09-13T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T02:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2013-09-13T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T03:17:03","slug":"farewell-voyager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/farewell-voyager\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Voyager !"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was\u00a0in my first year at Glasgow University when the Voyager Space craft was launched.\u00a0 1977. Then its mission was to explore the outer planets. Very few people believed\u00a0 it would even get that far. \"painting<\/a><\/p>\n

Today it’s almost 19 billion km from home! Radio signals will take the best part of a day to get back us from there! How many near misses with asteroids, meteors and comets large and small has it had on its travels? What wonders\u00a0it\u00a0 must have `spied’ – If only it had eyes.
\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-24026153<\/a><\/p>\n

Time then to remember\u00a0 and pay tribute to\u00a0 Kiwi \u00a0Bill Pickering – Sir William Hayward Pickering.\u00a0 \"<\/a><\/p>\n

Like many OUASSA students he grew up in rural New Zealand- Havelock at top of South Island in Bill’s case.\u00a0\u00a0 Educated at Wellington College he ended up in America as part of the `Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)\u00a0 at Pasedana California and\u00a0 then onto\u00a0 the \u00a0space programme in the 1950’s
\n“From a choice of three NASA space programs, manned space flight, Earth satellites and exploration of the solar system, Pickering opted for the latter. He would take JPL where none had gone before, into deep space to carry out NASA\u2019s massive program for the exploration of the solar system and its planets”<\/em>
\n“Accept the Light (of knowledge) and pass it on” <\/strong><\/em>was the motto of his\u00a0 beloved Wellington College. Sounds like great advice for any aspiring modern scientist.
\nhttp:\/\/www.royalsociety.org.nz\/publications\/reports\/yearbooks\/year2004\/obituaries\/william-pickering\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Where are you now Voyager?\u00a0 Seen anything even remotely as beautiful as earth?
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nwMpV3GPWAE<\/a>
\nWatch and enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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