Voyager 1 probe to hit historic one light-day distance from Earth in 17 days — 49-year-old spacecraft travels 16 billion miles and survives nearly ten times the length of its original five-year mission

It took the space probe nearly 50 years to get to one light-day, with NASA scientists and engineers going through lengths to ensure that it could keep operating for as long as possible.

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