Space Family Drama: When You Hang Up On Your Favorite Probe

Space Family Drama: When You Hang Up On Your Favorite Probe
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Relationship drama? Meh. But losing a $722 million spacecraft that's been faithfully sending data since 1977 because someone typed the wrong command? That's the kind of catastrophe that keeps space engineers awake at night. Voyager 2 is practically family at NASA—been sending postcards from the edge of our solar system for 47 years. The panic when mission control realized they'd essentially hung up on their most distant relative must have been... astronomical. Thankfully, they managed to call back.

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