Recognizing that the opportunity would not come again in their lifetimes, the science community scrambled to reduce cost and rescue the grand tour, producing a scaled-down version called the “Mariner Jupiter-Saturn” mission, with the more modest goals of exploring only the two largest and closest outer-solar-system planets: Jupiter and Saturn. This twin-spacecraft mission, at just under $2.5 billion in today’s dollars, was approved in 1972. A contest was held to formally name the spacecraft, and they were christened Voyager 1 and 2 just months before their launches in August and September
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Why pluto didnt get scaled or reached innfirst go
