After days of silence following a command error, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away.
In this Aug. 4, 1977, photo provided by NASA, the"Sounds of Earth" record is mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., prior to encapsulation in the protective shroud.
Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft’s antenna away from Earth and severed contact. The news “buoyed our spirits,” Dodd said. Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will now try to turn Voyager 2′s antenna back toward Earth.
“That is a long time to wait, so we’ll try sending up commands several times” before then, Dodd said.
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