Executive Orders are controversial because they allow the President to make major decisions, even law, without the consent of Congress. This, of course, runs against the general logic of the Constitution -- that no one should have power to act unilaterally.
Voyager 1 has since become the fastest and most distant man-made object in the Universe, travelling at around 61,500km/h at a distance of 17.6 billion km from the Earth. Perhaps most incredible of all, NASA is still in communication with it, despite radio signals taking 16 hours to reach it. Image Â© NASA.
The Current Distance Of Voyager 1. Spacecraft Voyager 1 The unmanned space probe Voyager 1 has been travelling through our solar system for the past 37 years and is now right at the edge of it, after crossing the so-called heliopause and entering interstellar space at a speed of 17 km/s. Sunlight takes about 17 hours to reach the probe by now. The Voyager programme was launched in the 1970s with the primary aim to explore the outer planets of our solar system. Every day, Voyager 1 moves further away from Earth by 1,468,800 km, or almost 5 light seconds.