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The Grand Tour: Visions of the Future Poster

Colorful poster with illustrated spacecraft flying past planets.
Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Published: February 10, 2016

This whimsical travel poster imagines a future regatta where explorers recreate Voyager 1 and 2's historic Grand Tour of the outer solar system.

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