Salt Lake Tribune · Aug 18, 2017
Voyager explored solar system using 8-tracks and aluminum foil
OK, NASA had better technology than Chevrolet in the 1970s, but one of the things you’ll learn watching the PBS documentary “The Farthest — Voyager in Space” (Wednesday, 8 p.m., KUED-Ch. 7) is that rocket scientists putting together what would become one of man’s greatest scientific achievements went to the store and bought some aluminum foil to use to protect parts of the craft.
Remember, when they launched two probes through the solar system, visiting planets and moons before sailing into interstellar space, it was at a time when computers were room-sized instead of laptops and schools taught computer science with the use of IBM cards and No. 2 pencils.