NASA Restores Contact With Voyager 2 Spacecraft After Mistake Led to Weeks of Silence

The "Sounds of Earth" record is mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Aug. 4, 1977. NASA/AP Photo

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence.

Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped communicating two weeks ago. Controllers sent the wrong command to the 46-year-old spacecraft and tilted its antenna away from Earth.