On October 11, 1958, NASA launches Pioneer 1, the initial spacecraft introduced by the newly formed room agency. Initially planned to fly by the Moon, a launch malfunction because of a programming mistake caused Pioneer 1 to only achieve a ballistic trajectory, which caused it to drop back to the Earth after 43 hours of the trip. However, some valuable scientific information was returned by the spacecraft.
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