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On this day in 1972 – March 2nd – NASA's Pioneer 10 was launched.

Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to cross the Asteroid Belt and to carry out the first mission to Jupiter. It's now almost 128 AU from Earth, heading out of the Solar System in the direction of the constellation Taurus.

Mona Evans
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