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So they basically asked it to do a barrel roll… and it worked!
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Those vessels had people on board, so in fact continuous maintenance. And HMS Victory was designed by a Royal Navy architect and built at a Navy dockyard, not by an 18th century Elon Musk.
The Voyagers were/are a remarkable achievement
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So, uh…inverted?! 
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overdrew power and tripped
And I’m tripping.
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(Looks it up)
Wow, they did! I’d figured it was TRW or some such. (TRW did build Pioneer…)
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At your age, you should be careful about those barrel rolls.
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True - but they were taken into the shop occasionally. 
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Actually, turning it off and on again is considered preventive maintenance for interplanetary spacecraft. It is done to every martian lander a few days before arriving to Mars, just to make sure that the spacecraft computer is in a clean and well understood state before it has to perform the critical descent and landing tasks.
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I know the “computer” on board is basically three vacuum tubes and a string of Christmas tree lights, but I still say NASA should task some of its processing power to contributing to SETI@Home.
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Yay. I’m just a little older than Voyager 2, and it nice to that we both continue to function - for the most part.
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I’m pretty sure this happened because the guy that had been keeping it running woke up from his nap.
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I’m younger, but I feel more like Beagle 2.
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Hey, as long as we don’t pull a Mars Climate Orbiter, we are doing good! The Beagle 2 is still in one piece!
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Not necessarily. And I speak from experience.
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