40年前,一个轿车大小的设备从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角发射升空。35年后,它成为唯一进入星际空间的人造航天器。一路上,“旅行者”号探测器爆出了飞越木星、土星和土卫六的头条新闻。“旅行者”探测器发射时,弗兰·巴格纳尔还是一个学生。那时,她就探测器围绕木星收集的数据写下了博士论文。现在,作为科罗拉多大学波尔得分校天体物理学和行星科学教授,以及美国航空航天局外行 Forty years ago, a sedan-sized device was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 35 years later, it became the only manned spacecraft to enter interstellar space. Along the way, “Traveler ” probe broke the headlines flying over Jupiter, Saturn and Titan. Flannery Bagnell is still a student at the launch of the “Traveler ” probe. At that time, she wrote a doctoral dissertation on the data collected by the detector around Jupiter. Now, as a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at the University of Colorado at Ballhead, and as a NASA layman