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In OTL when the launch of Voyager 1 was being prepared, the scientific team in NASA was debating whether they shall use the chance of closely investigating Titan or Pluto. Titan was picked because back then it was thought its atmosphere will be transparent to the cameras of Voyager, and because the engineers thought the spacecraft won't last long enough to reach Pluto.
Both observations proved to be wrong (the data of Titan was nothing groundbreaking and Voyager is still working for a given value of). So... WI Voyager 1 flies to Pluto past Saturn (the fly-by may happen somewhere around 1990)? How would this affect the future of long-distance spacecrafts?
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