St. Louis Science Center: Astronomy Fact Of The Day: September 5, 2021

Press release from St. Louis Science Center:

September 05, 2021

Today in 1977, Voyager 1 launched carrying the Golden Record from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. After visiting Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 would become the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to cross the heliosphere, the boundary where the influences outside our solar system are stronger than those from our Sun.

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