This Day in History, 1977: Voyager 1 Launched

[mabfan]

On September 5, 1977, thirty years ago today, Voyager 1 began its journey to explore our solar system. Today, it continues to fly through space, bringing a message of humanity's existence to the stars.

I remember the excitement of growing up during this mission, as we got to learn about the planets of the outer solar system and what they looked like up close. The first good pictures of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all came from the Voyager missions.

Godspeed, Voyager 1.

(For more information, see NASA's Website on Voyager.)

Comments

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

It was such an exciting time when those Earth-based photos of the big planets were suddenly replaced with high-res images revealing details we would never have imagined. Jupiter has a ring! Saturn has tiny ice moons! And all those images of the moons... good stuff.