25 August 2012
Voyager 1 Interstellar Space
Voyager 1 crosses the heliopause and becomes the first human-made object in interstellar space.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Interstellar Space in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Voyager 1 crosses the heliopause and becomes the first human-made object in interstellar space.
Voyager 1 plasma-wave observations measure electron-density oscillations characteristic of the local interstellar medium.
Uses Voyager 2 plasma measurements to identify the sharp transition from the heliosphere into interstellar space.
Voyager 2 becomes the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
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