It will be nice when we get out there and move between the stars.

how can V1 be launched 16 days after V2 and yet be 2 Billion miles further out?

Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched about two weeks later, on Sept. 5. Since then, the spacecraft have been traveling along different flight paths and at different speeds. Now some 17.4 billion kilometers (10.8 billion miles) from the sun and hurtling toward interstellar space, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Voyager 2 is about 14.2 billion kilometers (8.8 billion miles) from the sun.

Sadly, Star Trek I (V-Ger) might be closer to the truth than we know. They may be the only two objects to survive our solar system.