Well, to be quite honest, I thought we'd be all over the solar system by now.

As a kid 40 years ago I was excited when Viking landed on Mars... and the Space Shuttle Enterprise was introduced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggjD3i7efKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i40XddxwQMs

What's really exciting is that people got tired of waiting for the governments of the world and decided to invest in private space ventures.

There is only one Solar System, ours :) The rest are star systems. It's unfortunate that it took all these years to reignite the passion in space travel though.

Yes, I was only referring to our solar system. We understood that Andromeda was light years away back in 1976.

Forgot to mention that Skylab was still in orbit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

And Pioneer was heading out into the solar system.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/missions/archive/pioneer.h...

The Russians were sending probes to Venus during that time too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera

I'd love humanity to be visiting another solar system by now, but even starting a few decades ago we'd probably would have had to violate a few important laws of physics in order to reach another star.

Space is big