[DOC] [TLE] The Pioneer Missions | NASA [PAR] Launched on 2 March 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through 
... by man through most of its mission, Pioneer 10 is now over 8 billion miles away
. ... During its Jupiter encounter, Pioneer 10 imaged the planet and its moons, 
and ... Originally designed to operate in space for at least 6 months, the Pioneers
... [DOC] [TLE] Pioneer 10 - Wikipedia [PAR] Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, 
weighing 258 kilograms (569 pounds), that completed the first mission to the 
planet Jupiter. ... These were to be launched in 1972 and 1973 during favorable 
windows that ..... On November 6, 1973, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was at a 
distance of 25... [DOC] [TLE] Pioneer 11 Launched 40 Years Ago Today - Space.com [PAR] Apr 5, 2013 ... The risky mission took the small satellite dangerously close to ... 40 Years Later, 
NASA's Pioneer 11 Probe's Solar System Legacy Lives ... Its sister craft, Pioneer 
10, which launched on March 2, 1972, was the first to fly ... According to NASA, 
the spacecraft is now thought to be 8 billion miles (13 billion km)... [DOC] [TLE] Pioneer 10, the Pioneer Plaque & the Pioneer Anomaly - Space.com [PAR] Sep 18, 2012 ... Pioneer 10, the first probe to leave the solar system, carries a plaque ... Thanks to 
Pioneer 10's pictures, the planet Jupiter and its moons, ... The Pioneer plaque 
includes diagrams of Earth's location and drawings of a man and a woman. ... 
Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the latest in a series of... [DOC] [TLE] Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager I and II Spacecraft Flight Paths [PAR] To watch just the voyagers, and follow their path from launch till now, please see 
... and then go forwards again to follow each spacecraft's mission and manually 
zoom ... Pioneer 10 was the first Spacecraft to visit Jupiter and the first to traverse 
the ... in January, 2003, at a distance of 12 billion kilometres (80 AU) from Earth. [DOC] [TLE] Space Today Online -- The Pioneer spacecraft still are outbound [PAR] When the interplanetary probe Pioneer 10 left Earth on March 2, 1972, it was 
indeed off on a ... the first space probe ever to travel further than the Sun's most 
distant planet. ... Now, NASA has no additional contact attempts planned for 
Pioneer 10. ... Today, the spacecraft is traveling at a distance of 7.6 billion miles 
from Earth. [DOC] [TLE] Pioneer and Voyager Missions - Engineering and Technology ... [PAR] An artist's impression of Pioneer 10 passing the planet Jupiter. ... Launched in 
1972, Pioneer 10 became the first man-made object to pass through the asteroid 
belt between ... Voyager 1 is now the most distant man-made object in the 
universe, nearly 8 billion miles from Earth, while Voyager 2 is about 6 billion 
miles away. [DOC] [TLE] pioneer 10 mission status - Astronet [PAR] Originally launched in 1972, Pioneer 10 is still providing valuable scientific data. 
... Distance from Earth: 10.81 billion kilometers (6.716 billion miles) ... precession 
maneuver to point the spacecraft to Earth was accomplished on 6-8 February 
1999. .... Now 6.2 billion miles from Earth, Pioneer 10, built by TRW Space and... [DOC] [TLE] HI-line-21centimetre - Datamorgana [PAR] Pioneer 10 attached to it's kickmotor TE-M-364-4 Date 26 February 1972. ... The 
flyby of each planet would bend the spacecraft's flight path and increase its ... The 
first of these was launched on 3 March 1972, traveled outward to Jupiter, and ... 
reached by a an object from Earth, hurled Pioneer 11 1.5billion miles across the
... [DOC] [TLE] 15 Ongoing Space Missions You Should Know About | Mental Floss [PAR] Dec 15, 2014 ... will be the first probe to orbit two bodies in a single mission. ... the tenth planet, 
but is now characterized as a dwarf planet (to the relief of .... of 2.6 billion miles, 
Cassini's mission was

Question: Now 6 billion miles from Earth, Pioneer 10 originally was launched in 1972 on a mission to this planet
Answer: Jupiter