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  1. Voyager 1 Bids Farewell to the Solar System

    The Voyager 1 spacecraft will soon have a new territory to explore—interstellar space. Voyager chief scientist Ed Stone discusses whether the spacecraft will have a bumpy exit from the solar system, and the chances Voyager’s golden record may someday be intercepted by an advanced space-faring civilization.

    GUESTS Ed Stone Chief Scientist, Voyager Professor, Physics California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California

    http://sciencefriday.com/segment/06/22/2012/voyager-1-bids-farewell-to-the-solar-system.html

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  2. Radiolab: Escape!

    The walls are closing in, you’ve got no way out… and then, suddenly, you escape! This hour, stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs.

    We kick things off with a true escape artist—a man who’s broken out of jail more times than anyone alive. We try to figure out why he keeps running… and whether he will ever stop. Then, the ingeniously simple question that led Isaac Newton to an enormous intellectual breakthrough: why doesn’t the moon fall out of the sky? In the wake of Newton’s new idea, we find ourselves in a strange space at the edge of the solar system, about to cross a boundary beyond which we know nothing. Finally, we hear the story of a blind kid who freed himself from an unhappy childhood by climbing into the telephone system, and bending it to his will.

    http://www.radiolab.org/2012/feb/20/

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  3. Voyager 1 Probing Solar System’s Distant Edge

    The Voyager 1 spacecraft is now 11 billion miles from Earth, speeding along at 38,000 miles per hour towards the edge of the heliosphere, the bubble that surrounds the solar system. Voyager chief scientist Ed Stone discusses the craft’s discoveries about the environment at the edge of the solar bubble.

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  4. Carl Sagan And Ann Druyan’s Ultimate Mix Tape

    This is a love story. And, oddly enough, it starts with an interstellar space mission and a golden record.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123534818

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  5. The Mix Tape of the Gods

    Timothy Ferris discusses the Voyager space probe.

    From: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/opinion/05ferris.html

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  6. Radiolab - Space Capsules

    How would you describe life on Earth to an alien?

    In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched into space. And with it, went the Golden Record– a sort time capsule, a collection of sounds and images that would describe life on Earth to whomever or whatever might find it.

    Imagine trying to sum up existence on Earth into one little record… for an alien or humans of the far-off future. What sounds would you use? What music? What images? We put this charge to a bunch of artists, and asked what they would put into a space capsule. And in this week’s podcast, a few of the answers we got back. From Margaret Cho, Philip Glass, Alice Waters, Michael Cunningham, and Neil Gaiman.

    http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2007/11/20/space-capsules/

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