📅 On This Day: August 20

August 20, 1977: Voyager 2 is launched. On 20 August 1977, the robot probe Voyager 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and it is still the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus and Neptune.

🔬 Voyager 2 is launched (1977)

Carrying a 'Golden Record' with whale songs and greetings in many languages, it is now travelling in interstellar space.

Where: Cape Canaveral, Florida

Nearby on the globe: Kennedy Space Center → 🌍 Open the 3D globe

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1920 💡 Radio station 8MK in Detroit, today called WWJ, began broadcasting in 1920 and is known as one of the first commercial radio stations.
1936 🔬 Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa was born in 1936; he discovered plastics that can carry electricity and shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1962 💡 NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship built to carry passengers and cargo, set off on its first voyage in 1962.

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Which planets has only Voyager 2 visited?

Mars and Venus
Mercury and Earth
Uranus and Neptune

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Answer: Uranus and Neptune

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August 20, 1977: Voyager 2 is launched. It happened in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2

🔬 Voyager 2 is launched (1977)

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