NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes continued their trip through the solar system throughout the 1980s and 1990s. While Voyager 2 captured the first images of Uranus and Neptune, scientist Carl Sagan pushed for NASA to power up Voyager 1's cameras for one last time.

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Photos:

• https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-voyager-took/uranus/

• https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-voyager-took/neptune/

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Family_portrait_(Voyager_1).png

Sources:

• https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter11.html

• https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline

• https://www.npr.org/2010/02/12/123614938/an-alien-view-of-earth

• https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission

• https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1977-084A

• https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-anniversary-computers-command-data-attitude-control/

• https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engineers-steering-nasas-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html

• https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/Descanso4--Voyager_ed.pdf