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Launched aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket from [[Cape Kennedy]] on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was Earth's first space probe with a mission to explore an outer planet. There were many "firsts" associated with the flight of Pioneer 10. It was the first space probe to pass through the [[Asteroid Belt]]; the first spacecraft to fly past [[Jupiter]];<ref>http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL100/pioneer.html</ref> and the first man-made object to pass the orbit of [[Pluto]] and leave the solar system.  It was also the farthest man-made object from Earth until February 1998, when that record was surpassed by the [[Voyager I]] probe.<ref>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/history/pioneer.html</ref>

Launched aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket from [[Cape Kennedy]] on March 2, 1972, '''Pioneer 10''' was Earth's first space probe with a mission to explore an outer planet. There were many "firsts" associated with the flight of Pioneer 10. It was the first space probe to pass through the [[Asteroid Belt]]; the first spacecraft to fly past [[Jupiter]];<ref>http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL100/pioneer.html</ref> and the first man-made object to pass the orbit of [[Pluto]] and leave the solar system.  It was also the farthest man-made object from Earth until February 1998, when that record was surpassed by the [[Voyager I]] probe.<ref>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/history/pioneer.html</ref>

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