re mothership for flybys and cutting costs in article c dtd hhi zoo toronto edu henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes by what the voyagers did they exploited a lineup that occurs only every couple of centuries and even so voyager took a rather indirect route to neptune indirect compared to what did voyager traverse a substantially greater distance than say a hohmann orbit i ve never heard voyager s path described as indirect before dave michelson davem ee ubc ca university of british columbia
