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Voyager 1 and 2: Humanity's two interstellar space probes
The Voyager spacecraft launches were timed to take advantage of an alignment of the outer planets that only occurs once every 176 years. The alignment would allow the probes to hop from one planet to the next with the help of a gravity boost.
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