The Voyager Interstellar Mission

For nearly 43 years, the Voyager mission has enabled first-of-a-kind science discoveries and shared them with the world. The twin Voyager spacecraft brought us new views of the outer solar system planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - during the late 1970s and 1980s. Since 1990, the Voyagers have traveled outbound, finally crossing into interstellar space in 2012 (Voyager 1) and 2018 (Voyager 2). Today, both spacecraft continue their travels away from us, collecting valuable in-situ science date on the local interstellar medium. This presentation will focus on the Voyager Project, its history, its future exploration, and the challenges of operating a mission for multiple decades and from beyond the heliopause.