How Nasa's Voyager spacecraft changed the face of UK science
by Stuart Clark from on (#2ZK4Q)
Although almost exclusively American, the 40-year-old Nasa Voyager spacecraft helped raise the ambitions of the UK's planetary astronomers
The rasp of the filling cabinet's shutter fills the office, and my guest comes face to face with his past. "My pharaoh's tomb is open," he quips, before uttering a more heartfelt, "My goodness me."
His name is Garry Hunt and we are standing in front of more than 80,000 postcard-sized photographs of the outer solar system. They were taken by a pair of Nasa spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, that launched 40 years ago this summer.