VOYAGER: THE LONGEST JOURNEY EVER TAKEN

Two spacecraft launched in 1977 are still flying — farther from home than anything humans
have ever built. This is the grandest road trip in history.

ONE RARE ALIGNMENT

In the late 1970s, the outer planets lined up in a pattern that occurs roughly once every 176 years, allowing a single spacecraft to slingshot from world to world.

NASA built two and launched them weeks apart in the summer of 1977.

THE GRAND TOUR

Voyager 1 and 2 revealed Jupiter's roiling storms and volcanic moon Io, Saturn's intricate rings, and — for Voyager 2 alone — the first and still only close-up visits to Uranus and Neptune.

Almost everything in your mental picture of the outer planets came from these two machines.

THE GOLDEN RECORD

Each Voyager carries a gold-plated record of Earth's sounds, music, and greetings in dozens of languages — a message in a bottle for whoever, or whatever, might find it.

It may outlast the planet it came from.

STILL CALLING HOME

Both Voyagers have crossed into interstellar space, the first human-made objects ever to do so, and both still transmit on power measured in watts, not kilowatts.

Nearly fifty years out, the mission isn't over.

VOYAGER IS PROOF THAT THE RIGHT MACHINE, POINTED THE RIGHT WAY,
NEVER REALLY STOPS.