"When we launched, the space age was only 20 years old, so we had no evidence that things last that long," added California Institute of Technology's Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist.

“当我们发射它时，太空时代才刚开始20年，所以我们没有证据表明它能飞这么久，”加州理工大学的旅行者号科学家Ed Stone补充道。

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"Ed said he doesn't want Anatoly talking to you, and he said that very clearly," Stone added.

“埃德说，他不想让阿纳托利跟你交谈，他说得很清楚，”斯通补充说。

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"Ed is used to answering questions on a level of intelligence," Stone said. "But I was interested in the emotional, which is difficult for him."

“埃德习惯于从智力层面回答问题，”斯通说，“不过我感兴趣的是情感方面的，这对他来说挺难的。”

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The Voyager project scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ed Stone, said he wanted to see a reorientation of the magnetic fields around the probe before declaring it to be in interstellar space.

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