Watch: 45 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 2 continues its interstellar journey - WION

When mission designers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory realised that the next alignment of the outer planets, a rare occurrence that only happens once every 175 years, would take place in the late 1970s, they began planning the Voyager mission.
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft departed Earth over 45 years ago on a mission to the outer planets and beyond. Even now, the adventure is still going on. On August 20, 1977, Voyager 2, the first of two s… [+1830 chars] Read More