The hotly contested question has been answered: Voyager 1 is humanity’s first object to enter interstellar space. The historic announcement came from NASA after a year of review into 2012 and 2013 data points from the intrepid probe. Officially, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space on 25 August 2012.
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Voyager
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For NASA’s unmanned explorers, 2012 was an astonishing year filled with discoveries and observations inside…
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Like its sister probe Voyager 2, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been an instrumental force…
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On August 20, 1977, the intrepid spacecraft Voyager 2 launched from the Cape Canaveral Air…
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The Voyager spacecraft – NASA’s longest operational interplanetary probes – are about to enter their 34th…