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A 1973 NASA Spacecraft

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June 17th, 2015

 

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PROFESsee is my title. I am the perpetual learner, in pursuit of knowledge, wisdom and truth. I derived my name from professor
Its only human nature that the most eye catching detail about the spacecraft, which disappeared in space decades ago, would be the nude human forms that were engraved to help the aliens decipher human life if they ever captured the ship. Well, it seems like they did just that, but why the heck wont they establish contact?
 
UFOs (Unidentified flying objects) have held our minds in a trancelike projection for so long, even if we pretend otherwise. Spacecraft after spacecraft has been launched to space in the search for life forms. Don’t let NASA tell you any different! There is more to this than just studying the stars.
 
The spacecraft, also known as the pioneer G, was a robot spacecraft launched into space by NASA in 1973 for the purpose of space exploration. NASA hoped to use it to study the environment in space including the solar wind and the planets Saturn and Jupiter. It was the first robot to enter the asteroid belt and to fly near planet Saturn. However, communication with the robot has been lost since 1995 due to the great distance it has traveled into space.
 
 
For a cost of 150 million dollars, this spacecraft was engineered to explore the areas around Jupiter and Saturn. Did I hear you, taxpayer, frown in frustration? Yes, all that money, only for the bugger craft to disappear in space. Maybe it was captured by aliens then. It’s amazing that the planet that proved very close to supporting life would be mars, decades later.
 
It was built together with its twin Pioneer 10 after approval in 1969.  It was designed to explore the outer solar system. The mission for the spacecraft was to explore the outer space environment in Mars and to report back to earth.
 
NASA closed down the project in 1995. During this announcement, NASA said they will be occasionally listening to the spacecrafts signals from its transmitter. NASA went on to say that the Pioneer 11 has taught them a lot including their own deep desire for learning. NASA also gave a list of the missions that it had achieved so far.
 
Currently, this spacecraft is the most traveled spacecraft overtaking even the voyager 1, which was launched in 1977. It is also the man-made object that has traveled the farthest distance.

Can you Identify the spacecraft?


Image courtesy of:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1973-019A
 

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