Space Exploration has long held mankind's imagination. Youth today can look forward to careers in Space Science and Space Exploration. For those humans driven to confront a new frontier Space offers the ultimate challenge.
Photo of Russian Mir space station taken from space shuttle.
FIRST EARTH ESCAPE OF U.S. SPACECRAFT followed the launch of Pioneer IV on March 3, 1959. It passed the moon at a distance of 60,000 km (37,300 mi.) and reached a tracking distance record of 654,860 km (407,000 mi) before its batteries were depleted at launch plus 84 hours, 6 minutes.
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