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Events on Thursday 12 September 2013 1
2013Voyager 1 confirmed to reach interstellar spaceNASA probe becomes first human-made object beyond the solar systemNASA announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, had crossed into interstellar space over a year earlier, based on plasma density readings. It became the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere.