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Spacecraft escaping the Solar System
Pioneer 11February 1969 marked the approval of Pioneer 11 and its twin probe, Pioneer 10. These spacecraft were the first designed to explore the outer Solar System.
Voyager 2On the 20th of August 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This launch was part of a unique planetary…
Voyager 1Voyager 1 lifted off from Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the 5th of September 1977. It rode atop a Titan IIIE launch vehicle…
Pioneer 10In the 1960s, American aerospace engineer Gary Flandro of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory conceived a mission known as the Planetary Grand Tour.
New HorizonsIn August 1992, JPL scientist Robert Staehle called Clyde Tombaugh to ask for permission to visit his planet. Tombaugh later remembered the conversation by…