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10 Facts about the Pioneer Spacecraft
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Someone’s got to be first. In space, the first to explore beyond Mars were Pioneers 10 and 11, twin robots…
Article2 years ago
50 Years Ago: Pioneer 10 Launches to Explore Jupiter
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Pioneer 10 began its unprecedented multi-year journey from Earth on March 2, 1972. Managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC)…
Article3 years ago
40 Years Ago: Pioneer 11 First to Explore Saturn
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A rare alignment of the outer planets in the late 1970s provided an opportunity to explore that part of the…
Article5 years ago
50 Years Ago: Pioneer 8 Studies Interplanetary Space
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In 1967, while NASA’s main focus was on landing humans on the Moon before the end of the decade, the…
Article7 years ago
Decades of Discovery: NASA’s Exploration of Jupiter
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Launched five years ago on Aug. 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno mission maneuvered into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016,…
Article8 years ago
Decades of Discovery: NASA’s Exploration of Jupiter
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Launched five years ago on Aug. 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno mission maneuvered into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016,…
Article8 years ago
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