Over the past 40 years, the two Voyager spacecraft have explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. This is the unlikely control centre for one of the most ambitious and audacious missions in human history. You can tell that from the homemade cardboard sign beneath the computer monitors that reads: “Voyager Mission Critical Hardware PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH!” This is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) mission control for Nasa’s Voyager spacecraft. In a beige-coloured cubicle, on the ground floor of a nondescript suburban office block in Pasadena, California, history is being made. What you won’t find is any reference to, well, you-know-what. You’ll find everything from the story about the world’s greatest space mission to the truth about whether our cats really love us, the epic hunt to bring illegal fishermen to justice and the small team which brings long-buried World War Two tanks back to life. We’ll be revisiting our most popular features from the last three years in our Lockdown Longreads. So now we’re dedicating a series to help you escape. BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you navigate the current pandemic, but we know that’s not all you want to read.
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