The spacecraft Voyager 1 is the furthest man made object from Earth & is miraculously still transmitting data 0ver 35 years after it’s launch in 1977.

As it travels out of the solar system and heads for deep space we can only marvel at the journey of this object which has passed close to the asteroid belt, Jupiter & Saturn and has provided extensive scientific knowledge about our solar system.

It is well worth reminding ourselves of Innovation back on Planet Earth since  1977.

The first commercially available mobile phone went on sale in 1983.

The Internet was in it’s infancy in 1977 & didn’t become widely available until the 1990’s.

The World Wide Web did not exist until 1991.

The first commercially available personal computers only appeared in the late 1970’s & had a fraction of the computing power of today’s machines.

This makes the achievements of the  Voyager programme all the more remarkable.