Voyager marks major milestone

On August 20, the spacecraft Voyager 2 marked 45 years in space, becoming NASA’s longest space mission. NASA (the US space agency) launched Voyager 2 in 1977 to study the solar system’s outer planets. It was the first, and remains the only, spacecraft to fly close to Neptune and Uranus. It has also gone beyond the solar system into interstellar space (the space between stars in a galaxy) and is now more than 12 billion miles away from Earth.…

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