"Voyager 1 Spacecraft Heads For The Outer Limits" from NPR's All Things Considered

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is moving through the very outer boundary of our solar system, and moving into interstellar space. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 accomplished its initial goals of exploring the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, and is continuing to send back interesting data. NPR's Melissa Block talks to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium about the spacecraft and the outer limits of our sun's influence. [...] Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson directs the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He's also author of the book "The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet."

Download the NPR All Things Considered podcast for this show, here. Read the transcript for the show here. See also: Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet, NOVA - Origins, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist