Where is the Voyager spacecraft now?
148057
Yeah, you're probably watching too much Sci Fi stuff.\nI wouldn't worry about space aliens too much.  Anything intelligent enough to find us would most likely rather befriend us than attack us.\n\nThe Voyager 1 space craft is about about twice as far away from the Sun as Pluto.  It's traveling at about 1 million miles per day.  After breaking through the heliosphere Voyager will have reached interstellar space.  It's nuclear batteries are expected to last until the year 2020 or so.\n\nThe Voyager 2 space craft is about 80% as far from the Sun as Voyager 1.  It is traveling in a south ward direction from the planetary plane.
78131
Right now there isn't much. The idea of nuclear power for spacecraft isn't too attractive, given the radiation, fallout, and potential mess after an accident. \n\nThe old chemical rockets have experienced an upgrade recently, thanks to the Russian technology of the closed cycle motor. The energy used to run the pumps used to be jettisoned outside the motor bell, but the Russians needed that extra bit of power for their N1 moon ship, and designed the NK33 closed cycle motor. Thankfully, some of the motors survived the cold war, and ended up in the hands of researchers who used them to construct the closed cycle motors that power the Atlas 5. The New Horizons spacecraft rode out on the Atlas 5, which was the fastest launch in history. The Apollo ships took three days to cover the distance between Earth and Moon; New Horizons did it in 9 hours. That's an improvement.
741583
You are right.  Neptune and Uranus have only been visited by Voyager 2.  Jupiter and Saturn have been visited by multiple probes however.
689738
he Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught a remarkable image of the planet Uranus circled by some of its moons.\n\nThe rings of the planet - which is 3,000 million kilometres away from Earth - are clearly displayed in the image.\n\nThe rings are almost undetectable from Earth in visible light.\n\nThe VLT is located at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile.\n\nThe image was obtained in the near-infrared, and includes seven of the planet's moons.\n\nVLT\nVLT is based at Paranal in Chile\nTwo of the moons in the picture, Puck and Portia, were only found in the 1980s as the Voyager probe prepared for its flyby of the planet.\n\nUranus, which is at a distance from the Earth equivalent to 20 times the distance between the Earth and Sun, was first spotted by William Herschel in 1781.
607710
The first out of our solar system probes were Pioneer 10 and 11, which were launched back in the 60's. They were followed by the Voyager probes. We also have several telescope probes in orbit as we speak and the Hubble in orbit. We also have a very large array of earth stations, both optical and radio telescopes getting "pictures" on a daily basis. So, lots of pictures all over the place.
369458
They don't have a working reusable spacecraft. They designed and built a crude copy of our shuttle (theirs was called "Buran"), but it never flew and today is rusting away in some park somewhere.
329968
From what I have heard it isn't very likely that there will be another movie from The Next Generation Crew. There are currently talks about doing a Voyager movie, but it may be hard to fit into the overall Voyager timeline. \n\nOne possibility is to do a movie with the current Enterprise series, but that will only take place after the series has been completed. So it may be awhile before we have any other Star Trek movies.
881946
They all contribute various things, it all just depends on which ones youre talking about. For example, Voyager 1 is the only probe other than Voyager 2 to go beyond the Kuiperbelt and enter the Oort cloud. Both are expected to go out of realistic communications range in about 5-15 years. Mariner was the first probe that could actually penetrate the Venusian atmosphere and give us stunning orbital photos of the Venusian surface. The Martian Global Surveyor was the first probe that mapped Mar's surface, and actually allowed NASA and JPL to look at the resulting map and be able to decide where future robotic and manned missions might go. And, it is one of the probes that lasted longer than anticipated, about 15 years now. Spirit and Opportunity have both lasted for nearly 3 years and are coming up on their fourth year, and were only expected to last 90 days. They both have given us a better understanding of the Martian geological past, which tells us that Mars was actually a lot like Earth at one point. Hubble for example has given us high res photos of the space around us, and has even seen into the past, very close to the lull after the big bang. So you see, they all benefit us, it just depends on which ones youre talking about.
1173168
Space Transportation System
636583
What's the next bus to Pluto?
631301
Go here and register ( Free )..Plug in your location.\nThe site tracks several satellites and the space station.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com
950284
The new CEV, "Crew Exploration Vehicle".\n\nWe're finally getting out of low earth orbit and back into the solar system!
121011
Be careful how you define "outer space". If you mean outside the halo of the solar system or outside significant graviational influence of the sun, or outside a certain particle density that defines our solar system - nobody has been to outer space yet. I think Voyager I and II are getting close.\n\nMost people that have gone into space haven't even been outside Earth's magnetic field, and none have been outside of Earth's gravitational influence. Theoretically, then, the only people who have left Earth's outer atmosphere went to the moon.
1047344
Solar Sails.\n\nA spacecraft would deploy a huge sail to capture the solar 'wind', the constant stream of solar particles. A rather slow but economical method to move beyond Earth....
687738
Alien spacecraft particles. Part of the event detailed on MSNBC yesterday. You need to turn the pieces you find in at the local police station. They will reconstruct the spacecraft so we can transport all the stupid question asking people off of this planet.\nEnough said.\nPS. Welcome to the Yahoo Answers!
305366
Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft?
227558
None.  We have had a fly-by, but no orbiters.  Messenger will eventually be there, but it is rather hard to orbit mercury.  You launch a probe to it, and you need to be pretty craft to be able to stop it at mercury since it will have a tendancy to be accellerated into the sun.