Time after time, we found objects doing things we hadn't expected, it changed our view of the solar system.

Ed Stone

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This has really been a wonderful journey that began with the launch of two spacecraft in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn, our journey has expanded deeper and deeper into space. We had no quantitative idea of how big this bubble is that the sun creates around itself with its supersonic solar wind, made of ionized plasma, which is speeding away from the sun in all directions. And we didn't know the spacecraft could live long enough to reach the edge of the bubble, leave it and enter nearby interstellar space.

Both Voyager probes are exploring regions never before visited, so every day is a day of discovery, voyager is going to keep surprising us with new insights about deep space.

Its been a wonderful experience because there was so much to be learned, we've been able to share this journey over many decades with the public. We could bring people along on the journey as we were discovering things at each of the flybys.