Images of Voyager

An in-depth look at the assembly and testing of the Voyager spacecraft.

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The Voyager spacecraft.
A side view of the entire Voyager spacecraft against a black backround.
Voyager's magnetic mapping cool in the high bay.
A complex system of rings in the high bay is three times taller than a person.
A model of Voyager's Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator is placed in a shipping container.
A man in a cleanroom lowers a test model into a sturdy shipping container.
Voyager's 8-track digital tape recorder.
A complex system of wheels for recording data.
Voyager assembly in Hi-Bay I
Voyager assembly in Hi-Bay I
Voyager's Launch Vehicle Adapter in the high bay facility at JPL.
A large cylindrical structure used to mount a spacecraft to the top of a rocket.
Voyager initial systems test.
A high view shows parts of a spacecraft being assembled on a clean room floor.
This archival photo shows an engineer working on the construction of a large, dish-shaped Voyager high-gain antenna. The picture was...
A man removed protective wrap from a large antenna dish.
This archival photo shows an engineer working on the construction of a large, dish-shaped Voyager high-gain antenna. The picture was...
Engineers working on the construction of a large, dish-shaped Voyager high-gain antenna
Voyager assembly in Hi-Bay I
Voyager assembly in Hi-Bay I
This archival photo shows engineers working with the deployed magnetometer boom of one of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft in Florida on...
Engineers working with the deployed magnetometer boom of one of NASA's Voyager spacecraft
Voyager weight and center of gravity check in Hangar AO at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Voyager weight and center of gravity check in Hangar AO at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Voyager In SAEF II At Kennedy Space Center
Voyager In SAEF II At Kennedy Space Center
This image shows one of the Voyagers in the 25-foot space simulator chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California....
One of the Voyagers in the 25-foot space simulator chamber with engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This archival photo shows engineers working on NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on March 23, 1977.
Engineers working on NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft inside a lab
This archival photo shows the Voyager proof test model, which did not fly in space, in the 25-foot space simulator...
Voyager proof test model in the 25-foot space simulator chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft is seen here with its scan platform, which holds several of its science instruments, in the deployed position.
This archival photo shows the Voyager proof test model, which did not fly in space, in the 25-foot space simulator...
Voyager proof test model with engineers in the 25-foot space simulator chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This archival photo shows the Voyager Proof Test Model undergoing a mechanical preparation and weight center of gravity test at...
Voyager Proof Test Model undergoing a mechanical preparation and weight center of gravity test
This archival photo shows the Voyager Proof Test Model (in the foreground right of center) undergoing a mechanical preparation and...
Voyager Proof Test Model (in the foreground right of center) undergoing a mechanical preparation and weight center of gravity test
An engineer works on vibration acoustics and pyro shock testing for one of NASA's Voyager spacecraft on November 18, 1976....
An engineer works on vibration acoustics and pyro shock testing for one of NASA's Voyager spacecraft. Several of the spacecraft's science instruments are visible at left.
This archival photo shows engineers working on vibration acoustics and pyro shock testing of NASA's Voyager on November 18, 1976.
Engineers working on vibration acoustics and pyro shock testing of NASA's Voyager
This archival photo shows the encapsulation of the Voyager Development Test Model at NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Eastern Test Range....
Encapsulation of the Voyager Development Test Model
This archival photo shows the encapsulation of the Voyager Development Test Model at NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Eastern Test Range....
Encapsulation of the Voyager Development Test Model
This archival photo shows the Voyager proof test model, which did not fly in space, in the 25-foot space simulator...
Voyager proof test model in the 25-foot space simulator chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This archival photo shows engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on the 10-sided central structure, or "bus," of the...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on the 10-sided central structure, or "bus," of the Voyager 2 spacecraft
The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was the first of the two Voyagers to launch, is seen at the Spacecraft Assembly...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was the first of the two Voyagers to launch, is seen at the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This archival photo is from August 1977. The spacecraft was put into this shroud on August 2, 1977, to protect it during flight through the atmosphere.
As NASA's two Voyager spacecraft travel out into deep space, they carry a small American flag and a Golden Record...
John Casani, Voyager project manager in 1977, holding a small Dacron flag that was folded and sewed into the thermal blankets of the Voyager spacecraft before they launched 36 years ago. Below him lie the Golden Record (left) and its cover (right). In the background stands Voyager 2 before it headed to the launch pad.
This archival photo shows Voyager 2 at the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape...
Voyager 2 at the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
This archival photo shows the system test configuration for Voyager on October 1, 1976. The spacecraft's 10-sided bus is visible...
System test configuration for Voyager. The spacecraft's 10-sided bus is visible behind the catwalk railing in the foreground. The boom that holds several of the spacecraft's science instruments arches above the railing.
The Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing, is seen in August 1977, as it was being hoisted upward...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing, being hoisted upward for attachment to its launch vehicle
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing, is seen on August 5, 1977. It launched atop the Titan/Centaur-7...
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing atop the Titan/Centaur-7 launch vehicle
The Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle was moved to Launch Complex 41 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to complete checkout procedures...
The Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle, carrying Voyager 1