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The first man-made object to travel outside our solar system is Voyager 1. Launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 conducted a series of flybys of the outer planets, including Jupiter and Saturn, and then continued its journey into interstellar space. It officially entered interstellar space on August 25, 2012, making it the farthest human-made object from Earth. Voyager 1 continues to send back data about the environment of interstellar space, contributing to our understanding of the boundaries of our solar system and beyond.
Voyager 1 was the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
It crossed the heliosphere, the boundary where the influences from outside our solar system are stronger than those from our Sun. This happened on August 25,2012.
Voyager 1 has been exploring our solar system since 1977. The probe is now in interstellar space, the region outside the heliopause, or the bubble of energetic particles and magnetic fields from the Sun.
Voyager 1 was launched after Voyager 2, but because of a faster route it exited the asteroid belt earlier than its twin, and it overtook Voyager 2 on Dec. 15, 1977.