NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 35 years ago on September 5, 1977, is bracing for a controlled plunge into interstellar space. Soon the craft will leave the solar system behind, bursting through the windy bubble blown by sun.
Data from Voyager 1, launched on September 5, 1977, suggest its passage out of the solar system is not quite what scientists had expected.
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