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After 30 years, except for Voyager 1, Pioneer 10 is farther from Earth than any other human artifact. It will take another 2 million years for Pioneer 10 to reach the first star on its trajectory.


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Discovery and its crew landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday at 1:01 p.m. EST after completing a 15-day journey of more than 6.2 million miles in space.
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