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What the Voyager space probes can teach humanity about immortality and legacy as they sail through space for trillions of years

  • Written by James Edward Huchingson, Professor Emeritus and Lecturer in Religion and Science, Florida International University
imageScientists expect the Voyager spacecraft to outlive Earth by at least a trillion years.NASA/JPL-CalTech

Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2,...

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