The 1980 television series cosmos featuring voyager mission scientist carl sagan took viewers on a factual tour of the known universe and sparked the imaginations of many present day scientists and engineers.
Manned mission outside solar system.
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This could come in handy for manned missions even long duration manned missions within the outer reaches of our solar system at keplerian velocities as well as to provide ways to correct biological damage resulting from cosmic radiation.
Voyager 2 likely will be next.
However radiation from these would.
The series was reimagined in 2014 with astronomer neil degrasse tyson as the host.
Voyager 1 transitioned into interstellar space in 2012.
Five robotic spacecraft have sufficient velocity to escape the bounds of our solar system and travel into interstellar space but only one nasa s voyager 1 has crossed that boundary so far.
The greatest space mission ever voyager 1 which took a more direct route through the solar system passed out into interstellar space in 2012 before voyager 2 joined it in 2018.