Carl Sagan was a member of the scientific team that sent the Voyager One and Voyager Two space vehicles out of our solar system.

卡尔.萨根还是航行者一号和航行者二号的科研小组成员，航行者一号和二号是两艘飞往我们太阳系以外星系的探测器。

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One of Carl Sagan's last books is called “The Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human in Space.” Mister Sagan said he got the idea for the book from a picture taken by the Voyager One space vehicle.

卡尔.萨根最后一批著作中有一本叫《The Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human in Space》(《暗淡蓝点:展望人类的太空家园》)，萨根说，他是从航行者一号探测器传回的一张照片中产生了创作这部著作的想法的。

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The space probe, Voyager I, launched in 1977, had sent back spectacular images of Jupiter and Saturn and then soared out of the Solar System on a one-way mission to the stars.

1977年发射的“旅行者一号”太空探测器发回了木星和土星的壮观图像，然后飞出太阳系，执行前往恒星的单程任务。

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But that one picture on the Voyager clarifies that issue because the small people have smaller ages and the large people larger ages.

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Eventually, he wants SpaceShipOne displayed alongside another one of his airplanes, Voyager, which flew non-stop around the world without refuelling in 1986.

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To mark the occasion, Wired has gathered together one heck of a photo album that covers both Voyager 1's trip as well as that of Voyager 2, which technically launched earlier (August 20th the same year) but took a more roundabout route through the solar system.

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