Voyager 1

Today is momentous. Like Magellan, Hilary or Armstrong

Today is the first day any man-made object left our Solar System. It's taken 30 odd years for Voyager 1 to reach a point beyond the gravitational pull of our own sun. Voyager 1 is on its way now to Ursa Major near the Pole Star, 40,000 light years away. The ion batteries run out in about 10 years so after that its just its own momentum that carries it and NASA gets no more photos.

Just as well Voyager doesn't have a Apple Mac graphics card or it would be at the Genius Bar after only 6 years or 2,011,797,000 miles away.

(95.0 kg)