Voyager’s Supermarket Aluminum Foil Fix

After NASA learned Jupiter’s radiation belts were stronger than expected, engineers needed a last-minute way to shield the Voyager probes’ exterior cables from short-circuiting. With launch looming, they sent a technician to a local supermarket, bought up the available kitchen-grade aluminum foil, and wrapped it around the cabling as a quick radiation fix.

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