Voyager Is About to Leave the Solar System 10.33K Max Read 12/14/10 01:41AM Filed to: Space Space Nasa Voyager solar system Spacecraft Golden record Voyager 1, the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 (complete with a phonograph record, in case it ran into aliens!), is some 10 billion miles away from earth—on the verge of leaving the solar system and entering interstellar space.