Safe Flight Voyagers


	Safe Flight Voyagers

ColoradoRight

8-21-2007 1:24 PM

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space, explore, nasa

ColoradoRight says:

Its astonishing that these things are still working and sending back data. My car from 1977 is a pile of scrap by now I'm sure.

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