The Farthest

It's amazing to see the details of the spacecrafts we were able to create and launch using 1970's technology. This documentary is interesting but as expected somewhat dry and boring at times. The voyager spacecrafts might become our only epitaph billions of years from now after our sun has exploded and our solar system is no more. Knowing there is that tiny chance gives me a small measure of comfort. Worth watching, if only to be inspired to do something great.

One of the interviewees looks like supreme leader Snoke. More archival footage and engineering and instrument details would be better.

The Farthest chronicles the history of NASA's Voyager missions which flew by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and exited the solar system carrying golden records with recordings of our civilization in case they ever encounter extraterrestrial life. The parts detailing the many scientific discoveries made were quite interesting but I found the long segments focusing on the records and the possibility of alien civilizations to be overly long and unimportant. It's worth watching for the science