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Robotic exploration of the outer planets began 50 years ago. - AZPM

University of Arizona planetary scientist Bill Hubbard remembers how the dream of history-making encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, and beyond started. It began not long after the Soviet Union put the first satellite in orbit around the Earth.

Gary Flandrau, a young aeronautical engineer at the California Institute of Technology (unrelated to Grace Flandrau, for whom the UA Planetarium and Science Center is named) had studied the paths of the outer planets. Hubbard recalls Flandrau made an interesting discovery.

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Date: apr 19 2023 12:28 p.m.
Author: Tony Perkins
Twitter: @azpmnews
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