<font color="yellow">You have to appreciate the effort, and the scientific data that this program has provided.</font><br /><br />Don't get me wrong. The fact that the two Mars rovers are still operating and returning marvelous data unbelievably longer than any expectation is a testament to the men and women that made and continue to make it happen.<br /><br />It's just far more amazing to me that considering the immense difference in technology over the 25 years between the Voyager probes, and Spirit and Opportunity that the Voyager probes are still returning data of pehaps greater magnitude that another 30,000 Mars surface pictures could convey.<br /><br />I'll admit that I'm biased. I'm a child of Gemini and Apollo. I was blessed to be alive and watch Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface on live television.<br /><br />I watched Enterprise separate from a 747 and land, and thereby putting the STS program in space. I've been to the National Air and Space Museum and climbed through the mockup of Skylab.<br /><br />I've been to KSC, and watched a Shuttle launch from Orlando, Florida.<br /><br />But setting these accomplishments and spectacular achievements aside, we have two Voyagers who have and <b>will</b> outlive (barring not one but two unforseen catastophic failures) every single mission program that has been launched to this very day since Alan Shepard strapped himself into Freedom 7 45 years ago, and for a few more years to come.<br /><br />Voyager is what Mankind and our need to know is all about. To me, it was and will be for some time to come, the pinnacle of our altruistic desire to know our place in the Universe.<br /><br />If I seem to revere the program, I certainly do. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"2012.. Year of the Dragon!! Get on the Dragon Wagon!".</em> </div>