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Pioneer 10
| Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Pioneer 10, now more than 7.5 billion miles from Earth, is the farthest spacecraft in the solar system. | |
 Publication Size | Pioneer 10 built by TRW Space and Electronics Group, Redondo Beach, Calif., shown in the final stages of manufacturing |
| .Assembly of Pioneer 10 continues | |
| Goldstone's 34-meter beam-wave guide antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network | |
| Diagram shows Pioneer 10's systems | |
| Pioneer trajectories shown throughout the solar system | |
| Pioneer 10 exhibit and the heliosphere solar systems | |
| Pioneer 10's famed Plaque features a design engraved into a gold-anodized aluminum plate, 152 by 229 millimeters (6 by 9 inches), attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts to help shield it from erosion by interstellar dust | |
 Publication Size | Pioneer G spacecraft shown in 1973 |
 Publication Size | Mission to JupiterPioneer's Project Manager Charles F. Hall shown leading the Pioneer staff through another of his efficient "stand-up meeting" (also shown (L-foreground) Skip Nunamaker and (R-foreground) Richard Fimmel) |
 Publication Size | (L-R) Dr. John A. Simpson and Dr. James Van Allen shown during a Pioneer 10/11 news conference held on Jan. 27, 1973. |
 Publication Size | Artist rendition of the Pioneer F spacecraft shown in orbit around Jupiter |
 Publication Size | Artist rendition of the Pioneer 10 shown looking back at the sun from Neptune's orbit. The plucky little spacecraft was the first spacecraft to leave the solar system10 |
| (March 4, 2002) | |
| (February 27, 2002) | |
| Related News Release | (April 30, 2001) |
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