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This is great, I love following the Voyagers.

>When Voyager 1 lifted off to space on September 5, 1977, no one expected that the probe would still be operating today.

This is kind of an odd statement :) When launched, I remember brief news broadcasts and articles in the local newspaper stating the engineers added abilities that were not approved hoping for a much longer life time. It never stated if they got in trouble. But lasting this long is quite an achievement.