Technology: Voyager 1 Says Goodbye to the Solar System

Voyager 1, a spacecraft created by NASA, is now the first man-made object to cross into interstellar space-meaning the NASA probe sent into space in 1977 is now about 12 billion miles away from our sun and out of our solar system.
Recently received data from Voyager 1 shows it has been traveling through plasma, or ionized gas. “Now that we have new, key data, we believe this is mankind’s historic leap into interstellar space,” said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in an interview with kurzweilai.net. “The Voyager team needed time to analyze those observations and make sense of them. But we can now answer the question we’ve all been asking – ‘Are we there yet?’ Yes, we are.”
“Being outside the heliosphere allows us an opportunity to, in a sense, look at the undiluted galactic cosmic ray spectrum,” said Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Cosmic Research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, in an interview with space.com.
While Voyager 1 is 36 years old and the technology would seem to be out of date, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd said, “This mission is not over. Many more discoveries are out there, yet to come.”