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On November 18, 2026, Voyager 1 will cross a milestone no machine has ever reached: it will sit a full light-day from Earth.

A light-year sounds like a clean unit of distance, but for human spacecraft, it is almost a wall. From Voyager’s painfully slow journey to the nearest stars, this story reveals the brutal scale of ...

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Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is ...

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