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QotD

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2013-03-02

"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further." -- Wernher von Braun (b. 1912-03-23, d. 1977-06-16)

Forty-one years ago today: Pioneer 10 launched. A smidgen over ten years ago, we finally lost contact with it. (And, oddly, my ISP's calendar file had the wrong year for the launch, listing it as 1973. Pioneer 11 went up in April 1973.)

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