50 Years Ago: Pioneer 8 Studies Interplanetary Space
(World News USA)

In 1967, while NASA`s main focus was on landing humans on the Moon before the end of the decade, the Agency was also interested in studying interplanetary space. Ames Research Center (ARC) in Mountain View, California, managed the often overlooked but highly successful Pioneer program of solar orbiters. Between 1965 and 1968, four Pioneer space probes entered solar orbit to make comprehensive measurements of interplanetary magnetic fields and...