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Voyagers celebrate 30 years in space – the Golden Record awaits intelligent life forms

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

The Voyager 1  spacecraft is a 733-kilogram robotic space probe of the outer solar system September 5, 1977, and currently operational. It visited Jupiter and Saturn and was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets.
The US space agency’s (Nasa) venerable Voyager mission is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Its [...]

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Steve Fossett missing – millionaire adventurer with life experience degree

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Record breaking millionaire (billionaire ?) adventurer Steve Fossett has been missing for a few days now. (Its not Fosett or Fosset – Google corrected me)
Fossett, a Stanford University graduate with a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, went to Chicago to work in the securities business and ultimately founded his [...]

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