NASA's Voyager 1 probe launched into space in 1977, shortly after the Voyager 2 probe. Since then it has continued transmitting data back to Earth.
On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe into space with the aim of studying the outer planets. Voyager 1 launched a couple of weeks after Voyager 2, and both probes have flown to the outer reaches the Solar System, breaking records as... [2913 chars]