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On September 5, 1977, the United States launches the deep space probe, Voyager 1, just 16 days after launching its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2. The probe made flybys of Jupiter, Saturn and Saturn’s moon, Titan. Voyager 1 is the most distant man-made object from Earth and was some 21.3 billion kilometers from the Sun as of June of this year. It was the first probe to leave the solar system. |
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