Accidentally, I was born the same day Voyager 2🔗 was launched on top of a Titan IIIE-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral. I was always mesmerised by astronomy. One of my favourite books as a kid was a pocket book giving a brief overview of our Solar system, our cosmic neighborhood of the Virgo Cluster and notable structures in between. I read / browsed that book to pieces and kept taping the pages back that were falling out. It was printed in the ’80s so I can’t remember whether it had photos made by the Voyager probes in it.
The book was a present from my grandma who was a huge sci-fi nerd. We shared a passion for astronomy. She lived in a small city of ~30.000 residents, that luckily had a smallish but proper observatory mere 350 metres away on foot. Since the Voyager program kept delivering during my childhood I had a particular interest in it. I was moved by the Voyager-related theme of Star Trek the Motion Picture too. (The movie is about the fictional № 6 probe of the Voyager program. It's a touching story in which the probe evolves far beyond its original capabilities and wishes to seek out and reunite with its maker). Still, somehow I was already a young adult when I realised that the first probe was launched the very day I was born 😅 I know it’s just an arbitrary coincidence but still it felt good to discover a chance encounter in spacetime with one of my favourite space probes. (Also, I can relate to her being isolated.)
No wonder the Colorverse Voyager 1 limited edition ink set🔗 was an instant get for me when it got released. Though Voyager 2 was launched first, Voyager 1 had a different flight path and overtook its sister by the time they got to Jupiter. So Voyager 1 tends to steal the spotlight. This was the craft that took the famous Pale Blue Dot🔗 photo. Anyway, it’s still a Voyager ink set 😊
Take care, lil'*sis 👋
*I was born around 4:20 AM CEST while Voyager 2 was launched at 16:29 CEST, some 12 hours later that day.
