<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#d8d0c8> <DIV><FONT size=2>A belated farwell...</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>...to Pioneer 10, the little spacecraft that could. = Originally sent out to the Asteroid belt and then on to Jupiter. It was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt and the first to make = direct obversations and close-up photographs of Jupiter.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2, 1972--the year I = finally joined PTG--and was last heard from on January 23. Efforts to raise her = on February 7th failed and there will be no more attempts made; she now = sails on in peace. At some 7.6 billion miles from Earth, she is now the most distant = object ever made by man and, on her present course, will reach the = vacinity of the red star Aldebaran in some 2 million years. Have a good trip, little one.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Del</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Delwin D Fandrich<BR>Piano Designer & = Builder<BR>Hoquiam, Washington 98550 USA<BR>360.532-2563<BR>360.532-6688<BR><A href="mailto:pianobuilders@olynet.com">pianobuilders@olynet.com</A></FO= NT></DIV></BODY></HTML>