# It's Quieter in the Twilight

12 Hacker News commenters recommended It's Quieter in the Twilight and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a documentary about the aging engineers who still run the Voyager missions and keep them operating.

## Why people recommend it

- Shows the team operating Voyager (4 comments): "Watch the documentary "It's Quieter in the Twilight" to find out how the people currently responsible for Voyager 1 & 2 managed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170596)) "Watch the documentary "It's Quieter in the Twilight" to find out how the people responsible for Voyager 1 & 2 feel about it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822547)) "I can really recommend the documentary It's Quieter in the Twilight . It covers the flight-team operating Voyager" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821047))
- Portrait of aging, mostly retired engineers (3 comments): "There is a terrific documentary, 'Its quieter in the twilight', about the aging and dwindling team that still runs both Voyager missions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564922)) "a dedicated team of engineers (mostly retired) are fighting to keep the Voyager mission alive" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062099)) "a cool documentary about the engineers still running voyager" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178250))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "It's Quieter in the Twilight", https://hackerapproved.com/p/it-s-quieter-in-the-twilight/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).