{"id":879,"date":"2011-09-04T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/?page_id=879"},"modified":"2011-12-03T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T15:07:47","slug":"to-uranus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/?page_id=879","title":{"rendered":"To: Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There has been only 1 NASA mission to Uranus &#8211; Voyager 2 launched many years ago in 1977.\u00a0\u00a0Further details about the Uranus\u00a0missions can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/planetary\/planets\/uranuspage.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s Uranus web pages<\/a>.\u00a0 Uranus is planet number 7 in our Solar System&#8217;s line up.\u00a0 And the 3rd largest planet (by radius &#8211; about 4x that of the Earth) and is at a minimum distance of 1.2 billion km (746 million miles).\u00a0 More details about Uranus can be found on NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/planetary\/factsheet\/uranusfact.html\" target=\"_blank\">Uranus Fact Sheet<\/a>.\u00a0 A quick look at all of the planets can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/heasarc.nasa.gov\/docs\/cosmic\/planets.html\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>[videogallery id=&#8221;Uranus-Missions&#8221;]<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/voyager.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Voyager<\/a> 2 &#8211; 1977 Voyager 2 launched 8\/20\/1977 and was the first of a pair of spacecraft launched to explore Jupiter and Saturn then on to the outer planets like Uranus and Neptune\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/nmc\/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1977-076A\" target=\"_blank\">detailed description<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0but was plagued with problems &#8211; later overcome.\u00a0 Its launch date was unique in that Voyager 2&#8217;s\u00a0path would\u00a0take it past Uranus and Neptune as well as Jupiter and Saturn.\u00a0 Like Voyager 1, it contained a\u00a0golden record of sounds from earth.\u00a0\u00a0Voyager continues to speed out of our solar system. Images from Voyager 1 and 2 can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/photo_gallery\/photogallery-jupiter.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been only 1 NASA mission to Uranus &#8211; Voyager 2 launched many years ago in 1977.\u00a0\u00a0Further details about the Uranus\u00a0missions can be found on NASA&#8217;s Uranus web pages.\u00a0 Uranus is planet number 7 in our Solar System&#8217;s line up.\u00a0 And the 3rd largest planet (by radius &#8211; about 4x that of the Earth) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/?page_id=879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To: Uranus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":398,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions\/1268"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}