Launch of Voyager 2
AUG 20, 2018
The spacecraft remains the only one to explore Uranus and Neptune.
On 20 August 1977, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft launched aboard a Titan IIIE rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Its sister probe, Voyager 1, was launched 16 days later. Voyager 2 would go on to explore the solar system’s four gas giants ; it is the only probe to fly by Uranus and Neptune. Today the probe is more than 17 billion kilometers away in the heliosheath , on the cusp of reaching interstellar space. (Photo credit: NASA)
Date in History: 20 August 1977
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