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Voyager Display Case
A fully assembled spacecraft scale model comes beautifully mounted in its own acrylic display case, perfect for your office, study, classroom, your local library, or college planetarium.
Our first offering in the series is NASA's workhorse, Voyager, which is currently making exciting new discoveries in the farthest regions of our solar system.
The acrylic case measures 12 inches by 12 inches by 10 inches and encloses a precision-detailed, assembled laser-cut paper scale model that captures the important visual and dimensional properties of the Voyager spacecraft. For three structures, the magnetometer boom and the two planetary radio astronomy antennas, only the sections near the spacecraft bus are shown. (If these were shown to scale at their full length, they would more than double the size of the display case).
Imagine yourself using this handsome model display to illustrate all of Voyager's scientific instruments, its major components, and its daily operations in deep space. Illustrated poster-format fact sheets and references are included.
Limited Edition Offering. First come, first served. Each display is numbered and initialed by the modelmaker. Allow up to 4 weeks for shipping.

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The Voyager spacecraft

The two Voyager spacecraft were launched in the summer of 1977. Both Voyagers explored Jupiter and Saturn taking numerous pictures and measurements. After Saturn, Voyager 1 continued outward into interstellar space. Voyager 2 continued on to Uranus and Neptune, reaching Neptune in August of 1989, before heading into interstellar space itself.

A thorough listing of the achievements and discoveries of the Voyager spacecraft would fill volumes. Among the most prominent are the discovery of rings around Jupiter, the volcanoes of Io (one of Jupiter's moons), and shepherd moons at Saturn and Uranus. Voyager 2 was the first, and so far the only, spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune.

In February of 1998, Voyager 1, travelling outbound from the sun at roughly 320 million miles a year, surpassed the somewhat slower moving Pioneer 10 to become the most distant man made object in space. As of late 2003, Voyager 1 appears to be entering the termination shock, the region where the solar wind becomes subsonic. It is expected to remain in contact with Earth through the year 2020, by which time it may encounter the heliopause -- the edge of the Sun's bubble in space.

Each Voyager spacecraft carries a record, a message describing where we are, some pictures, music, and science from our civilization with it as it leaves our solar system.

For more information about NASA's Voyager project, visit www.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager

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The Voyager spacecraft

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