Voyager 1's historic mission. By Sam Trotman Hampton School

On the 5th of September 1977 the NASA satellite space probe, Voyager 1 began its voyage into deeper space. Its mission? For both NASA and humanity to explore the greater depths of our solar system and the reaches of outer space. Voyager 1 is currently the furthest man-made object from earth at an estimated 14,793,615,768 miles away from the Earth and has been travelling for over 45 years. Despite this it only takes light 22 hours, 2 minutes and 54.4520 seconds to reach Earth from the Voyager 1 s