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Detailed explanation-1: -The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As originally designed, the Voyagers were to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn’s rings, and the larger moons of the two planets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Voyager 1 almost didn’t get off the ground at its launch, as its rocket came within 3.5 seconds of running out of fuel on Sept. 5, 1977. But the probe made it safely to space and raced past its twin after launch, getting beyond the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter before Voyager 2 did.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first of a pair of spacecraft, Voyager 2 lifted off on Aug. 20, 1977. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California manages the spacecraft on their missions to explore the outer planets and beyond.

Detailed explanation-4: -Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere.