Voyager 2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 1977; Voyager 1, 16 days later. Both spacecraft carried TV cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, and photopolarimeters to ...

Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand tour of the cosmos that nearly ended at Saturn. Launched in August and September 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have opened ...

In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defective memory and convincing their space probe to ...

The Historic Robotic Spacecraft Series has since inspired the production of decals, toy blocks, patches, t-shirts and glassware. "As of now, only the Voyager enamel pin has been produced.

The twin Voyager spacecraft were to travel where no other mission had gone before, exploring what lies outside the vast bubble that surrounds our solar system, beyond the influence of our host star.

Sadly, we won’t be returning the favor. If aliens ever snag one of our interstellar envoys, like one of the Voyager spacecraft, they’ll see that we sent them some really old school stuff.

The Voyager pin, celebrating the grand tour of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, is the first in the Historic Robotic Spacecraft Series. | Credit: Chop Shop Voting is open through April 14 ...