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Something out of this world
The story of OJ Simpson is as baffling as the perplexing and intriguing space voyagers that we are still trying to understand the science behind it all
21 April 2024 - 00:00
In 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1. Ed Stone, the lead scientist on the project explained that it was “The first computer-controlled spacecraft ever launched and it still flies itself, it runs itself, it checks itself and it can switch to backup systems by itself”. ..
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