NASA's Voyager 1 probe the most distant man-made object in the universe is returning usable information to ground control following months of spouting gibberish, the US space agency announced Monday."Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems," the agency said.
The city hopes any potential aliens in the TRAPPIST-1 system will learn bourbon, horses, and bluegrass are worth the 40 light-year journey, although the message might not survive the trip.
High Mileage NASA's two Voyager spacecraft have been through a lot — and even that's a vast understatement. The two probes, which were launched less than a month apart in the summer of 1977, have been screaming through the outer reaches of space, and breaking records in the process. Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft […]