👉The Only Close Visit to Uranus Ever Made On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 made history by becoming the first—and still the only—spacecraft to fly past Uranus. After traveling through the outer solar system for nine years, it passed just 81,500 kilometers above the planet’s cloud tops, giving humanity its first close look at this distant ice giant. Before Voyager 2’s arrival, Uranus appeared as little more than a blue-green dot through telescopes on Earth. That brief flyby changed everythi