September 5, 2021
Today in 1977, Voyager 1 launched carrying the Golden Record from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. After visiting Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 would become the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to cross the heliosphere, the boundary where the influences outside our solar system are stronger than those from our Sun.
This photograph from Sept. 5, 1977 shows the launch of Voyager 1 aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket. Credit: NASA/KSC