The Deep Space Network
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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A Spacecraft Is a Long Way Away
When you arrive here, there is a real kind of sensation of excitement to see this incredible human technology. It's beautiful because we can see Dish 43 at the moment out of the window - which is a huge white structure. And at the moment, I noticed it's just contacted Voyager 2 as we speak, which is a wonderful thing for me because I remember those spacecraft being launched in 1977. We're going through just rural Australia and suddenly. You come around this corner and you start to see these incredible white constructions. They look sort of like oil rigs, but they're coming out of the ground and they're facing space... Just little cups of the universe collecting information. To say it
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