Voyager 1 Has Left The Building
- Thursday, September 12 2013 @ 10:41 am EDT
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Voyager 1 Becomes First Man-Made Object to Reach Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, which launched in 1977, has officially entered interstellar space and is now more than 19 billion kilometers from our sun, nearly 130 times farther away than our planet. [read more on WIRED.com]
Source WIRED
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