AOL.com by Josh King 9/29/2017
For all of NASA’s high-tech advancements, it may surprise you to know that the agency used regular kitchen aluminum foil to save one of its most famous missions.
The Voyager probes were launched in 1977 and have explored Jupiter and Saturn and surveyed Uranus and Neptune before leaving the solar system. But the two spacecraft wouldn’t have been able to do any of that without the help of some simple aluminum foil, according to Business Insider.
Just months before the launch, scientists discovered that Jupiter seemed to have a more intense magnetic field than previously thought.
More:
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/09/29/nasa-used-kitchen-aluminum-foil-to-save-a-legendary-space-mission/23227847/
