Voyager 1
Space Mission
What is the Voyager 1? What is it's mission?
The Voyager 1 is a Interstellar Spacecraft Mission. It was sent into orbit on September 5, 1977 and has been in space since.
"The mission objective of the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) is to extend the NASA exploration of the solar system beyond the neighborhood of the outer planets to the outer limits of the Sun's sphere of influence, and possibly beyond. This extended mission is continuing to characterize the outer solar system environment and search for the heliopause boundary, the outer limits of the Sun's magnetic field and outward flow of the solar wind. Penetration of the heliopause boundary between the solar wind and the interstellar medium will allow measurements to be made of the interstellar fields."(http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar.html)