Pioneer 3
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Pioneer 3 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft launched at 05:45:12 GMT on 6 December 1958 by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency in conjunction with NASA, using a Juno II rocket. This spacecraft was i
Pioneer 3 being inspected before shipping to Cape Canaveral
Pioneer 3 diagram
Juno II launching Pioneer 3
Pioneer program
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The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes. The first program, which ran from 1958 to 1960, unsuccessfully attempted to send spacecraft to orbit the Moon, s
Pioneer 3
…mission Launch date 6 December 1958, 05:45:12 GMT Rocket Juno II Launch site Cape Canaveral, LC-5 End of mission Decay date 7 December 1958, 19:51 GMT Pioneer program Pioneer 3 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft launched at 05:45:12 GMT on 6 December 1958 by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency in conjunction with…
A family portrait showing (from left to right) Pioneers 6-9, 10 and 11 and the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Multiprobe series
Reconstructed replica of Pioneer 1
Lunar flyby spacecraft (Pioneer 3, 4)
Pioneer P-1, P-3, 5, P-30, and P-31 probe