Voyager

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A voyager is a person who travels, especially as an explorer. The equivalent French term voyageur is used to describe early French Canadian fur traders and explorers who usually travelled by canoe. The voyageurs evolved from the coureur des bois.

It may also mean any of the following:

Contents 1 In aerospace 2 In computing and electronics 3 In land transport 4 In literature 5 In movies, television and gaming 6 In music 7 In ocean-going vessels 8 See also

[edit] In aerospace

• Voyager program, a NASA unmanned space program
  • Voyager 1, an unmanned spacecraft, launched September 5, 1977, and the farthest man-made object from Earth
  • Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft, launched August 20, 1977
• Voyager program (Mars), a planned, but canceled series of probes to the planet Mars

• Voyager (communications satellite), an American OSCAR-series amateur radio satellite launched in 2006

• VSS Voyager, the proposed second vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet
• Rutan Voyager, the first airplane to fly around the world without refueling

[edit] In computing and electronics

• Voyager, the code name for the HP-10C series of handheld programmable calculators
• LG Voyager, the mobile phone manufactured by LG Electronics
• NCR Voyager, a computer platform from NCR Corporation
• Voyager (Computer worm), a potentially damaging computer worm affecting Oracle databases
• Voyager (library program), the integrated library system from Endeavor Information Systems, now part of Ex Libris Group
• Voyager (web browser), a web browser for the Amiga range of computers
• Voyager components, the supplier of electronic components

[edit] In land transport

• Voyager, diesel-electric high-speed multiple-unit trains built by Bombardier Transportation for use on the British railway network
• Virgin Voyager and Super Voyager, two forms of trains
• Plymouth Voyager or Chrysler Voyager brands of minivan

[edit] In literature

• Voyager Books, an imprint of HarperCollins specializing in fantasy novels.
• Voyager (novel), a 1992 time travel romance novel written by Diana Gabaldon
• The Voyagers Trilogy by Ben Bova, which include the novels Voyagers (1981), The Alien Within (1986), and Star Brothers (1990)

[edit] In movies, television and gaming

Movies

• Now, Voyager, a 1942 American film
• Voyager 6, a fictional NASA space probe that evolved sentience as V'ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
• The Voyager Company, a laserdisc and multimedia CD-ROM publisher in the 1980s and 1990s
• The Voyager, a 1991 German film, titled Homo Faber in German

Television

• Voyagers!, an NBC time travel TV series, broadcast 1982 - 1983
• Earth Star Voyager, a 1988 TV series pilot that aired on the Wonderful World of Disney
• Star Trek: Voyager, a syndicated science fiction TV series, produced 1995 - 2001
  • USS Voyager, the titular starship of the series

Games

• Voyager, aka the Black Testament, a character in the Xenosaga game

[edit] In music

• Minimoog Voyager, a synthesizer designed by Robert Moog

Musicians

• Voyager (band), a British pop-rock band active between 1979 and 1981
• Voyager (Metal Band), an Australian progressive metal band from Perth
• VOYAGER (band), an American doom/post-metal band from the Boston area, formed in 2007

Albums and songs

• Long Distance Voyager, a 1981 album by the Moody Blues
• Voyager, a 1995 album by Space Needle
• Voyager, a 1996 album by Mike Oldfield
• "Voyager," a song from the 2001 Daft Punk album Discovery

[edit] In ocean-going vessels

Military

• HMAS Voyager, a Royal Australian Navy destroyer
• HMS Voyager (D31), a Royal Navy V-class destroyer
• USS Voyager (SP-361), a US Navy motorboat

Civilian

• Voyager of the Seas, the first of Royal Caribbean International's five Voyager-class cruise ships

[edit] See also

• Voyageur, the French word for voyager or traveller