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The Voyager control center at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena California, 1980. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (Photo by NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Voyager control center at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena California, 1980. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (Photo by NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)