The greatest space mission ever voyager 1 which took a more direct route through the solar system passed out into interstellar space in 2012 before voyager 2 joined it in 2018.
Manned mission outside solar system.
The 1980 television series cosmos featuring voyager mission scientist carl sagan took viewers on a factual tour of the known universe and sparked the imaginations of many present day scientists and engineers.
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The series was reimagined in 2014 with astronomer neil degrasse tyson as the host.
However radiation from these would.
There are a number of ideas for how we could finally escape our solar system including fusion rockets which are being perused by a nasa funded company.
Voyager 2 likely will be next.
Solar system and.
Five robotic spacecraft have sufficient velocity to escape the bounds of our solar system and travel into interstellar space but only one nasa s voyager 1 has crossed that boundary so far.