Four days after Elvis Presley died, a rocket blasted off into the blue skies above Cape Canaveral. While America was mourning the loss of a cultural icon, the Titan Ill-Centaur was propelling the first of two robotic craft toward their own iconic status—symbols of discovery, exploration, science, and the human spirit. Voyager 2 lifted off on the morning of August 20, 1977, and its sister ship would launch on September 5. They would explore alien worlds, capturing the imaginations of scientists and the public as they ventured on a quest as epic as any in history.
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