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    Pioneer H was a proposed space probe for the US Pioneer program. If it had been approved, it would have been launched in 1974 and have been designated...
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    Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10...
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    April 1973 Pioneer H – proposed out-of-ecliptic mission for 1974, never launched. Would have used flight spare for Pioneers 10 and 11. Pioneer Venus Orbiter...
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    serious damage. Pioneer 11 was built by TRW and managed as part of the Pioneer program by NASA Ames Research Center. A backup unit, Pioneer H, is currently...
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    Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社, Paionia Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly referred to as Pioneer, is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Tokyo, that...
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    Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9 were space probes in the Pioneer program, launched between 1965 and 1969. They were a series of solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized...
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  • Look up Pioneer, pioneer, or pioneering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pioneer commonly refers to a settler who migrates to previously uninhabited...
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    Archived from the original on 17 December 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012. "Pioneer H, Jupiter Swingby Out-of-the-Ecliptic Mission Study" (PDF). 20 August 1971...
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  • Pioneer 12 was the twelfth mission of the Pioneer program. It was a designation given to two different missions: Pioneer H, a planned mission to the Sun...
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  • The Pioneer anomaly, or Pioneer effect, was the observed deviation from predicted accelerations of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft after they...
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  • The Pioneer Chicken Take Out Corporation, doing business as Pioneer Chicken, is an American fried chicken restaurant chain which was founded in Echo Park...
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  • Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. is a U.S.-based producer of seeds for agriculture. They are a major producer of genetically modified crops with insect...
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    Pioneer Square is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Downtown Seattle, Washington, US. It was once the heart of the city: Seattle's founders settled...
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    The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminum plaques that were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring...
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    The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12, was a mission to Venus conducted by NASA as part of the Pioneer Venus project...
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    Oberth effect, applying thrust near closest approach in a gravity well Pioneer H, first Out-Of-The-Ecliptic mission (OOE) proposed, for Jupiter and solar...
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    Strongly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Baxter has been vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society since 2006. His fiction...
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  • The Pioneer Fund is an American non-profit foundation established in 1937 "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences". The organization...
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    James Van Allen (category Articles with hCards)
    mission. George H. Ludwig Stamatios Krimigis (Tom Krimigis) Explorer program Sputnik program Sputnik crisis Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Pioneer H Garber, Steve...
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    Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, also known as Pioneer Venus 2 or Pioneer 13, was a spacecraft launched in 1978 to explore Venus as part of NASA's Pioneer program...
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    pseudonyms during the mid-1960s. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss was a vice-president of the international group in Wells'...
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    Pioneer 5 (also known as Pioneer P-2, and Able 4, and nicknamed the "Paddle-Wheel Satellite") was a spin-stabilized space probe in the NASA Pioneer program...
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    Pioneer 4 was an American spin-stabilized uncrewed spacecraft launched as part of the Pioneer program on a lunar flyby trajectory and into a heliocentric...
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    The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered trainset built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), commonly known...
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    offered. Pioneer 300 FG Fixed landing gear with a cruising speed of 222 km/h (138 mph) using a Rotax 912ULS engine. The 914T is also available. Pioneer 300...
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    develop areas of the nation within the continent of North America. The pioneer concept and ethos greatly predate the migration to the Western United States...
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  • The Murray Pioneer is a weekly newspaper published since 1892 in Renmark, South Australia. It is now owned by the Taylor Group of Newspapers. The forerunner...
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    The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning...
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  • R & H Green, Blackwall as the merchant ship Eider. She was abandoned, icebound, on 25 August 1854 off Bathurst Island in the Arctic. HMS Pioneer (1856)...
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    The Scammell Pioneer was a British 6×4 tractor unit used in World War II as an artillery tractor, recovery vehicle and tank transporter. Designed as a...
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