USA · NASA/JPLfirstrobotic
August 20, 1977
Voyager 2 launches — only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune
Experience this missionLaunches two weeks before Voyager 1 on a 'grand tour' trajectory; flies past Jupiter (1979), Saturn (1981), Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989), and crosses into interstellar space in 2018.
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