SXSW's itsquieterfilm visits the team shepherding Voyagers 1 and 2 as the spacecrafts' mission comes to an end.
spacecraft. There's nothing we've made that's told us, in situ, more about what's out there in the vastness beyond our world and its star-anchored system of planets. Now, 44 years after they were first launched, Voyagers 1 and 2 continue to communicate with Earth and probe the secrets of deep space. But soon that's going to end.
That story's told through intimate interviews with the engineers working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Voyager project manager Suzy Dodd, and team members Sun Matsumoto, Enrique Median, Fernando Peralta, Jefferson Hall, Todd Barber, and Chris Jones – interspersed with historical media coverage and an array of compelling animations that depict the far-flung events. Miossi smiled at the mention of those visuals.
"Yes," agreed Shapiro,"we wanted to make those things comprehensible to people aren't as brushed up onOn the other hand, we're all brushed up on what it's like to be human, and, increasingly, what it's like to age toward our own quieter twilights. And now here we are, considering the trajectory of a filmmaker – who also directed, the 2017 doc about Walter Cronkite and the Evening News – who's much closer to the dawn of his own mission.
The director nodded."There's this moment with Chris Jones at the end, where he gets very emotional about that. He's thinking back to when he was young and just starting his career, and that did make me reflect that, here I am, at the younger end and at the early part of my career.
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