VOYAGER 1 AIRCRAFT OUR UNIVERSE
VOYAGER 1 AIRCRAFT THE UNIVERSE VOYAGER 1 In September 1977 in our NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft begin its long its long journey into the unknown when it was launched the Kennedy space centre 16 days later than Voyager 2, launch. These probes main object was to conduct close up studies of the outer planets including their large moons and mysterious rings system. Voyager 1 was launched on a faster more direct path that would send the spacecraft hurtling towards Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 would take a slightly different path that would also take it past the two gas giants but then on to Uranus and Neptune taking advantage of rear planetary arrangements that only occurs once every 175 years. With in the couples of year after its journey Voyager 1 sent back its first image won a which reveals a crescent shaped Earth and moon hanging in darkness. SPACECRAFT Because of the direct path that Voyager 1 was set on it only took the spacecraft approximately one a...