In the vastness of space, the farthest man-made object out there is NASA’s Voyager 1. 

This spacecraft is currently over 22 billion kilometers away from Earth, which is 156 times the distance between our Earth and Sun. 

It is so far away that it had crossed over into Interstellar space sometime in 2012. Voyager 1 has now gone beyond our Sun’s Heliosphere, a boundary beyond which the Sun's gravitational influence on any object is no more! 

Despite this, Voyager 1 still maintains active communication with NASA’s Deep Space Network even today. In its 44-year mission, it has found some remarkable things about our Solar System and beyond. 

So stick around as we explore one of humanity’s most successful space exploration missions, NASA’s Voyager 1. 

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NASA created two Voyager spacecraft in the 1970s, Voyager 1 & 2. Originally designed to carry out close imaging of Jupiter and Saturn,  both spacecraft had their missions extended and still function today.