{"id":128332,"date":"2017-09-05T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128332"},"modified":"2017-09-05T21:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:55:37","slug":"this-day-in-history-sept-5-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128332","title":{"rendered":"Voyager 1 began its journey &#8211; Sept 5, 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/feature\/space\/voyager-1-brief-history-interstellar-spacecraft\">ScienceFocus.com<\/a>\u00a0: \u00a0 40 years ago, on This Day In History, NASA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/category\/tag-cloud\/voyager\">Voyager 1<\/a>\u00a0spacecraft lifted off from Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 5 September 1977, a couple weeks after the launch of its sister craft, Voyager 2. Equipped with a toolbox of television cameras, infrared and ultraviolet sensors, and various other instruments, the spacecraft are still travelling through space today. They\u2019re powered by \u2018radioisotope thermoelectric generators\u2019, which convert the heat produced by the radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/rocket.jpg\" alt=\"Voyager 1 lifts off (credit: NASA)\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b5383f23-17da-4952-9753-106278e5ac09\" \/><figcaption><em>Voyager 1 lifts off \u00a9 NASA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also onboard each spacecraft is a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/article\/space\/a-message-to-stars\">Golden Record<\/a>\u2019 that contains sounds, music and images from Earth, intended for any aliens or future humans who chance upon the craft. Sounds engraved into the copper vinyl include nature recordings of birdsong, thunder and wind, greetings in more than 50 languages, and music by artists including Bach, Chuck Berry, Beethoven, Blind Willie Johnson and Mozart.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/voyager-golden-record.jpg\" alt=\"Voyager 1's Golden Record, etched with instructions on how to play it (credit: NASA\/JPL)\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b9dcba58-bad7-461e-af99-1e6577e8c569\" \/><figcaption><em>Voyager 1&#8217;s Golden Record, etched with instructions on how to play it \u00a9 NASA\/JPL<\/em><\/figcaption><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from ScienceFocus.com\u00a0: \u00a0 40 years ago, on This Day In History, NASA\u2019s\u00a0Voyager 1\u00a0spacecraft lifted off from Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 5 September 1977, a couple weeks after the launch of its sister craft, Voyager 2. Equipped with a toolbox of television cameras, infrared and ultraviolet sensors, and various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":128334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128335,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128332\/revisions\/128335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}