Planetary Society Chief Scientist, Bruce Bets

The chief scientist of the planetary society, bruce bets, welcome back. We've got venus looking super bright over in the east an the pre dawn mars near it,. And to their lower left, saturn and mercury are really close. Let's move on to this week in space history. 19 69, apollo nine was launched this week. Apollo nine, the earth orbiting test of the lunar madril. It was successful. 50 years ago this week, the launch of pioneer ten, the ground breaking first spacecraft through the asteroid belt. First spacecraft to jupiter, and that's one of the five spacecraft leaving the solar system permanently. That was 50 years ago.