Video Licks: Colbert Discusses the Voyager 1 Mission with Dr. Ed Stone. Awesome Sauce!

I am always impressed when comedy can be used to bring knowledge to the plebians. Last night Stephen Colbert interviewed former JPL director and Caltech professor Dr. Ed Stone on The Colbert Report. The two discussed the NASA Voyager 1 mission which launched a spacecraft in 1977. The craft has been in space for 36 years. It was only meant to be a 4 year mission. Amazeballs! Voyager has entered interstellar space so who knows when the aliens will be contacting us to remove our trash from their planet.

 
Get a kick out of Colbert awarding Dr. Stone NASA’s Public Service Medal for scientific achievement in a space suit.

 
Mentions: Learn more about the Voyager mission HERE. Science!