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Originally Posted by transplant99
Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA said Thursday.
Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered spacecraft is more than 17 billion km from the sun, cruising through what scientists call interstellar space, the vast, cold emptiness between the stars, the U.S. space agency said
http://www.vancouversun.com/technolo...758/story.html |
Hell of a feat for Voyager as it has only 68 KB of memory on board, next feat is when it flys by another star....in about 40,000 years!
