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Old 08-18-2018, 02:38 PM
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Ah...that's an apropos large-format, "patina-ed" picture of the first-ever--and NASA's first--deep space probe. As a "vanity/historic recreation" project, it would be interesting to launch a Pioneer 0/1/2 replica, complete with the infrared spin-scan TV scanner, into lunar orbit, as a "hitch-hiker" payload (the Atlas V, whose Centaur stage has already demonstrated the capability to dispose of itself in solar orbit from a near-polar orbit, could easily carry such a replica lunar orbit probe as a secondary payload).
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