CNN: Voyager 1 overcomes its latest challenge to keep operating more than 15 billion miles away

[Jack Valentino]

12. "Starman" (1984) was fictionally invited to earth by the Voyager 1 probe...

and "the disk" with greetings in 54 earth languages (although not shown in the trailer)

I still love that movie.

Did NASA have any notion that this probe would survive for this many years,
and travel this far away while still sending information back to earth?

I suppose they had hopes for such, but I find this all incredibly amazing.

I watched the moon landing on TV well before I was ten years old....

it seems we have not advanced very much at all since those days,
in regards to space travel initiatives...