Voyager program

NASA's grand tour

The Voyager program is a NASA mission comprising two robotic spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets.

Both probes conducted flybys of Jupiter and Saturn; Voyager 2 continued to Uranus and Neptune.

They now travel through interstellar space, carrying golden records with sounds and images of Earth—messages for any civilization that might find them.

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