When will the first human leave our Solar System?

So we asked Futurism readers when they thought the first human will leave our solar system. Not very soon, it seems. The option that received the most votes by far was 2100 or later — this was the choice of about 35 percent of respondents.

How long does it take a spacecraft to leave the Solar System?

Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first man-made object to leave the Solar System. It has taken it 36 years to get that far - how long would it take you? " It's still going somewhere no spacecraft has gone before." Voyager 1 and 2's original mission was to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Will NASA's Voyager 1 be the first human-made object to leave the Solar System?

Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft will soon become the first human-made object to leave our Solar System. It has taken it 36 years to reach the edge of interstellar space. Below, you can see some of the steps it has taken along the way. Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first man-made object to leave the Solar System.

When did Voyager 1 leave the Solar System?

Based on abrupt changes in the apparent plasma density around the spacecraft, the researchers were even able to pinpoint August 25, 2012 as the most likely date that Voyager 1 left the solar system, crossing the heliopause, the boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium.

How long will Voyager 1 stay in orbit?

"Every so often they phone home and say - 'I'm still going. Don't forget about me!'" Voyager 1 will not approach another star for nearly 40,000 years, even though it is moving at such great speed. But it will be in orbit around the centre of our galaxy with all its stars for billions of years.

How long does it take a spaceship to fly back on Earth?

"Your flight time to the nearest (exoplanet) is seven years. But because the spaceship is going so fast, your time slows down while you're going that fast. So the time passing back on Earth, on that example, was 43 years," Wooding said.