From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 22:41:12 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Voyager 1 anniversary
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl at keithlynch.net> wrote:
> Today is the 40th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1.
>
> For the past 19 years it has been the furthest manmade object from
> Earth, and nothing else that has been launched so far will ever
> overtake it.  Not Voyager 2 (which had been launched two weeks
> earlier), not Pioneers 10 or 11 (which had been launched about
> five years earlier), and not New Horizons (which flew by Pluto
> two years ago).

[much deletion]

And it's been sending back incredible images.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170905.html

mjw