Thirty-five years ago today, NASA's Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to fly by Jupiter and photograph the planet up close! Pioneer 10 and its brother Pioneer 11 paved the way for the follow-on explorations of the outer solar system by Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizons.
December 3, 1973 was a finest hour for NASA and our great, space-faring Nation!
More information:
NASA
Encyclopedia Astronautica
Wikipedia
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