Voyager 1 Is the Farthest Human-Made Object From Earth

The most distant thing people have ever built is a spacecraft launched in the 1970s. NASA states that no spacecraft has gone farther than Voyager 1, which left Earth on September 5, 1977. On August 25, 2012, it became the first spacecraft to exit the heliosphere and begin measuring the interstellar environment. NASA also gives a distance. As of August 21, 2024, Voyager 1 was 164.7 astronomical units from Earth, which NASA calls the farthest object created by humans. An astronomical unit is a measure of distance used for the solar system. The distance carries a date because the spacecraft is still travelling, so any figure for how far away it is goes out of date and has to be updated.