Note: Voyager 1, launched in 1977, took 35 years to reach the edge of the heliosphere (the protective solar wind zone cast around our sun) and entered into interstellar space (the vast area between stars and their astrospheres). Voyager 1 is still active and sending data back to earth some 15 billion miles away from the sun. The image is a NASA artistic depiction of the heliosphere of our sun.
THIRTY-FIVE
voyager one, turning thirty five,
reached the edge of the heliosphere,
a look of pride upon his face,
bravely turned, waved goodbye,
and like a good son off to war, disappeared
into interstellar space.