Voyager
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A voyager is a person who travels. Often used in the context of 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.
Voyager may also mean any of the following:
in computing:
- Voyager (web browser), a web browser for the Amiga range of computers
- Voyager (Computer worm), a potentially damaging computer worm affecting Oracle databases.
- NCR Voyager, a computer platform from NCR Corporation
- Voyager (car rental booking engine), a progress 4gl based car hire reservation system used by holiday autos.
in electronic and computer music
- Voyager (computer software), an interactive improvisational computer program by George Lewis (trombonist)
- Minimoog Voyager, a synthesizer designed by Robert Moog
in entertainment
- Voyager (band), a British pop-rock band active between 1979 and 1981
- Voyager (band), an Australian melodic rock/metal band formed in 2000
- Voyager (album), a music album by Mike Oldfield
- Voyager (library program), the book-library program from Endeavour corporation
- "The Voyager" (song), a song by the group, Alphaville
- The Voyager (Homo Faber), a German film from 1991
- The Voyager Company was a pioneering multimedia CD-ROM publisher in the 1980s and 1990s
- Star Trek: Voyager, a TV series produced from 1995 to 2001
- From the same series is the titular vessel USS Voyager (NCC-74656), an Intrepid class starship in the Star Trek fictional universe
- Voyager 6, a fictional Voyager class NASA spaceprobe from Star Trek: The Motion Picture which evolved into the being Vejur (from the non-obscured characters on its nameplate, V_ger)
- Earth Star Voyager, a television series pilot that aired on the Wonderful World of Walt Disney in 1988
- Voyagers!, a time travel-based television series broadcast from 1982 to 1983 on NBC
- "Voyager," a song by Daft Punk from their 2001 album Discovery
in literature:
- Voyager Books, an imprint of HarperCollins specialising in Fantasy novels.
- Voyager (novel), a romance novel written by Diana Gabaldon
- Voyager (magazine), a Polish science-fiction magazine
- Historians of some future time period with time travel technology to help history along its natural course by traveling back to historical events. Seen in the 1982 television series Voyagers!
in navies:
- HMAS Voyager, a destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy
- HMS Voyager (D31), a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy
- USS Voyager (SP-361), a motorboat of the United States Navy
in space exploration:
- Voyager 1, a spacecraft part of the Voyager program which launched on September 5, 1977
- Voyager 2, a spacecraft part of the Voyager program which launched on August 20, 1977
- Voyager program (Mars), two spacecraft proposed to visit Mars.
in transport:
- Scaled Composites Voyager, the first airplane to fly around the world without refueling
- VSS Voyager, the proposed second vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet
- British Rail Class 220 (Voyager) and British Rail Class 221 (Super Voyager), diesel-electric high-speed multiple-unit trains built by Bombardier Transportation for Virgin CrossCountry
- A Plymouth Voyager or Chrysler Voyager minivan
[edit] See also
- Voyageur, the French word for voyager or traveller.
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