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Voyager: Outward bound

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Ed Stone has spent 36 years guiding the twin Voyager spacecraft through the Solar System. Next stop, interstellar space.

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  • 23 May 2013

    The original version of this News Feature stated that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were renamed en route to Jupiter. In fact, they were renamed before launch. This has now been corrected.

  • 29 May 2013

    A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/497548b

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Witze, A. Voyager: Outward bound. Nature 497, 424–427 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/497424a

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