On this day in 1977 - 16 days after Voyager 2 - the Voyager 1 space probe was launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at then Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket.
After making flybys of Jupiter and Saturn - including that planet's largest moon, Titan - Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in 2012. Still operational and sending science data, Voyager 1 is continuing its journey, currently at a distance of more than 23.5 billion km from Earth - making it the most distant human-made object.
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Credits📷: @nasa
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