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Color photo of the Voyager 1 launch. The probe sits atop a rocket mounted on a larger rocket with twin solid fuel boosters – a Titan IIIE launch vehicle. The photo is taken just after ignition. The bottom of the rocket has lifted up about half the height of the gantry, and is engulfed in bright white flame and smoke.

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Color photo of the Voyager 1 launch. The probe sits atop a rocket mounted on a larger rocket with twin solid fuel boosters – a Titan IIIE launch vehicle. The photo is taken just after ignition. The bottom of the rocket has lifted up about half the height of the gantry, and is engulfed in bright white flame and smoke.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 18:24:37 UTC Robert McNees

The Voyager 1 space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral #OTD in 1977, a few weeks after Voyager 2.
Now it's the most distant human-made object – about 14.96 billion miles from Earth, racing away from us at 38,000 miles per hour with respect to the Sun.
Images: NASA/KSC/JPL

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