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The Loneliest Spacecraft
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Right now, a spacecraft launched in 1977 is still sending messages home.
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Voyager 1 is more than twenty billion kilometers away, farther than anything humans have ever built.
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Its signal takes nearly a full day to reach us, sent from a transmitter about as strong as a fridge light bulb.
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Engineers keep it alive by switching off heaters and instruments one at a time.
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It carries a golden record with music, greetings and the sound of rain.
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One day it will go quiet, and keep drifting for billions of years.
