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Life Beyond Earth;The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram (1,590 lb) space probe launched by the US space agency, NASA, on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System. Operating for 36 years，last Thursday NASA said that its Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first human- made object to venture into interstellar space（星际空间）。 This is the epoch-making signicicance for human beings. ;Warming-up Quastions;Millions of people believe in aliens like this prop in the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico. There is no conclusive evidence of any life beyond Earth, but there is hope: If microbes can live in the pores of rock deep beneath the Earth or at the rim of a scalding Yellowstone spring, then they might find a place like Mars not so shabby.;Introduction of the Author;He graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with an A.B. degree in politics. He is an American staff writer for The Washington Post , the National Public Radio(NRP)commentator and the author of Captured by aliens; former writer for the Miami Herald. On September 7, 2007, The Washington Post named him National Enterprise writer for the duration of the 2008 presidential election. ;He wrote a monthly science column for National Geographic magazine. He is also the writer of three columns a week for Washingtonpost. com. He wrote a syndicated column for 7 years called Why Things Are. ;Internet Newspaper Pioneer;Articles by Joel L. Achenbach;Extraterrestrial life;UFO;NASA美国国家航空和宇宙航行局 ;NASA;Geophysics地球物理;UCLA;Hubble Space Telescope 哈勃太空望远镜P4 L3;;Yellowstone spring(P9L7);SEIT(P11);Fermi paradox(P21L6);Martian canal(P24);Viking Lander(P27);Zoo hypothesis;Mars Pathfinder;Some events;Guide to Reading;Organization ;Purpose of the article;Thank you!