Voyager

NASA's distant traveler

Voyager refers to either of NASA's twin space probes launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets.

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 conducted flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and continue transmitting data from interstellar space—the farthest human-made objects from Earth: Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012. (Lowercase voyager is any long-distance traveler.)

spacecraft

NASA

Federal space exploration bureau

Carl Sagan · Uranus · Neptune · space probe · flyby · 1977 · Pioneer · Galileo · Cassini · New Horizons

Categories
Opposites
mission type

VoyagerApollo

Sun deity, moonshot namesake

Space Shuttle · crewed mission · manned spaceflight · human spaceflight · Gemini

mobility and exploration

Voyagerhomebody

One preferring domestic life

stay-at-home · settler · resident · homesteader · host

mission destination and scope

VoyagerHubble Space Telescope

Orbiting astronomical observatory

weather satellite · GPS satellite · communications satellite · ISS

Phrases
Family

voyage, voyages, voyaging, voyaged, voyagers, voyageur

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G