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... into deep space, “venturing into places where nothing built by humanity had ever gone before.” Pioneer 10 had last returned telemetry data on 27 April 2002. In the previous three attempts ... detected no signal from the spacecraft. Engineers reported that Pioneer 10 's radioisotope power source had decayed. Originally, NASA had designed Pioneer 10 for a 21-month mission, but the spacecraft had ...

... /70; SBD, 12/18/70, 200)'' Fifth anniversary of NASA's Pioneer VI interplanetary probe. Since launch Dec. 16, 1965, Pioneer VI had orbited sun six times, covering 5.3 billion km ... sun's far side (relative to earth) once, providing new data on solar atmosphere and pioneering solar weather reports from far side; made important contributions to defining exact orbits and mass ... far side had been 290 million km (180 million mi). First of four Pioneer probes now in orbit, Pioneer VI was firmly stabilized in plane of earth's orbit by its 60 ...

... to denigrate what Skylab has done and rate it below the achievements" of Pioneer 10 , an Economist article said. Pioneer 10 's pictures, "passable photographs" of Jupiter, were "better than no pictures ... present ones. The results could be even better than Pioneer 10 's." ''(Economist, 12/8/73, 20)'' A Detroit News editorial commented on Pioneer 10 's Dec. 3 rendezvous with Jupiter: "Jupiter ...

... threatened by termination or delay of the program. Curtailment of an ongoing scientific concept like Pioneer-Venus would severely reduce credibility of the government's long-term commitments, with added time ... funding for the Large Space Telescope was inappropriate; the programs were not competing, but complementary. Pioneer-Venus would provide information on our closest neighbor, whereas LST would collect deep-space data ...

... its moons; origin of life on the planet; and Pioneer 11 targeting toward Saturn upon its departure from the vicinity of Jupiter. Pioneer findings about Jupiter- characterized by low density and high ... out of the area occupied by the Great Red Spot without losing their own identity. Pioneer measurements of Jupiter properties internal heat, composition of its moons-permitted the first detailed calculations ...

... five times the distance between the Earth and its Moon. This distance was the closest Pioneer 6 had ever approached Earth since launch from the Kennedy Space Center ( KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ... . Three sister probes followed Pioneer 6 into solar orbit. During the period from 1966 to 1970, Pioneers 7, 8, and 9 were launched into coordinated orbits. With Pioneer 6 , this spacecraft team formed ...

... space, extending man's transportation system into regions beyond land, sea, and air. The newest Pioneer probes began penetration into the mysteries of outer planetary space. Budget restrictions in line with ... .N. participated in 40 Skylab data-analysis investigations. German and Australian scientists were coinvestigators for Pioneer 11 experiments and French and U.K. scientists for Mariner 10 . Investigators from 40 nations ...

... Exploration Besides the new scientific satellites, NASA continued systematic exploration of the solar system as Pioneer 11 , launched in April 1973, sped to within 42 000 km of Jupiter 3 Dec ... information on the planet's weather patterns, atmosphere, and radiation belts. Data from Pioneer 11 and its predecessor Pioneer 10 , which had encountered Jupiter in December 1973 revealed that Jupiter was hotter ...

... sun. Sun orientation maneuver took about five minutes. The 175 lb, drum-shaped PIONEER VI , first of four Pioneer spacecraft to be launched at six-month intervals, would study the solar windstream ... experimental aircraft; Charles Edward Taylor, builder of the first successful airplane engine; A. Roy Knabenshue, pioneer in building and flying steerable balloons; and Albert Cushing Read, participant in the first successful ...

NASA's PIONEER VII (Pioneer B), second in new Pioneer series, was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR 's Launch Complex 17A by Thrust ... on earth and stabilized its orbital path. First of five flights in current Pioneer program-managed by ARC -was PIONEER VI, launched Dec. 16, 1965. Overall program objective was to provide continuing ...

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