Pioneer 4 Stories
Preparing Pioneer 4 for the Moon
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This image from March 2, 1959 shows engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory checking NASA's Pioneer 4 spacecraft.
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Pioneer 4 Marked NASA’s First Exploration Mission Beyond Earth
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NASA’s commitment to exploration beyond low-Earth orbit is continuing with plans to launch the Orion spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) in September 2014. Since its formation in 1958, one of the agency’s core missions has been to discover what…
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