10 careers that explore space 1 astronaut astronauts pave the way for human exploration beyond our earth.
Manned mission outside solar system.
They are pilots scientists engineers teachers and more.
In addition to these spacecraft some third stages and de spin.
The 1980 television series cosmos featuring voyager mission scientist carl sagan took viewers on a factual tour of the known universe and sparked the imaginations of many present day scientists and engineers.
The series was reimagined in 2014 with astronomer neil degrasse tyson as the host.
Below is a list of artificial objects leaving the solar system all of these objects are space probes and their upper stages launched by nasa.
For a full list of mission to explore beyond our solar system visit nasa s astrophysics division.
The closest potentially habitable planet outside of our solar system is an intimidating 4 2 light years away but that hasn t stopped scientists from dreaming of ways to get there.
Of the major spacecraft voyager 1 voyager 2 and new horizons are still functioning and are regularly contacted by radio communication while pioneer 10 and pioneer 11 are now derelict.
This could come in handy for manned missions even long duration manned missions within the outer reaches of our solar system at keplerian velocities as well as to provide ways to correct biological damage resulting from cosmic radiation.