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Voyager 1 Launch
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Caption:
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft launched atop its Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex in Florida on September 5, 1977, at 8:56 a.m. local time.
Background Info:
Voyager is managed for NASA by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
For more information about Voyager, visit http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | |
| System | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | |
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | Voyager | |
| Instrument Host | Voyager 1 | |
| Host Type | Flyby Spacecraft | |
| Instrument | ||
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Grayscale | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2017-07-05 | |
| Date in Caption | 1977-09-05 | |
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21746 | |
| Identifier | PIA21746 | |
