Great write up on what has happened to the program and the team who still maintain it after all these years. seriously impressive committments by the team, huge respect for them! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/...-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html?_r=0
Pioneer 10 & 11 were first... Pioneer 10 flew by Jupiter (December 1973) while Pioneer 11 passed Jupiter (December 1974) and the ringed planet Saturn (August 1979)... great photo of news reporter Jules Bergman covering Pioneer 11 flyby in August 1979... wearing an Omega Speedmaster .