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    The Farthest

    Poster of the movie The Farthest
    2017     Documentary    
    Ireland
    2h 1min

    THE FARTHEST tells the captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this August. The twin spacecraft -- each with less computing power than a cell phone -- used slingshot trajectories to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They sent back unprecedented images and data that revolutionized our understanding of the spectacular outer planets and their many peculiar moons. Still going strong four decades after launch, each spacecraft carries an iconic golden record with greetings, music and images from Earth -- a gift for any aliens that might one day find it. Voyager 1, which left our solar system and ushered humanity into the interstellar age in 2012, is the farthest-flung object humans have ever created. A billion years from now, when our sun has flamed out and burned Earth to a cinder, the Voyagers and their golden records will still be sailing on -- perhaps the only remaining evidence that humanity ever existed.

    Directed byEmer Reynolds
    Written byEmer Reynolds

    Featuring

    Frank Drake
    Carolyn Porco
    John Casani
    Lawrence Krauss
    Timothy Ferris
    Edward Stone
    Nick Sagan
    Larry Soderblom
    Charley Kohlhase
    Fran Bagenal
    James F. Bell
    Frank Locatell
    Suzanne Dodd
    Jon Lomberg
    Heidi Hammel
    Candy Hansen
    Andrew Ingersoll
    Dave Linick
    Fernando Peralta
    Linda J. Spilker
    Tom Spilker
    Janet Sternberg
    Amahl Drake
    Don Gurnett
    Stamatios Krimigis
    Linda Morabito
    Brad Smith
    Richard John Terrile

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