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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Sep 14, 2017, 08:20 AM Sep 2017

At last, people whose birth really was influenced by the movement of the planets [View all]

After joining the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1977, Dr Spilker worked on the Voyager missions to the outer Solar System.

She describes herself as a “Voyager mom”.

“My two children were born, very strategically, in a window on Voyager between the Saturn and Uranus flybys, because there were five years between them.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/cassini_huygens_saturn
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