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What human-made object is the farthest from Earth?

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The man-made object that is farthest away from Earth and will continue to hold the title is the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

Voyager 1 was launched a couple weeks after Voyager 2 , both in 1977 .

The probes will celebrate 47 years of operation this year and are NASA ’s longest operating spacecraft.

Engineers are still sending commands to Voyager 1 and receiving usable information from the spacecraft.

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