Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Pioneer 6
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.214744.11467@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <90352.073839TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu> <1990Dec19.194125.18440@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 21:47:44 GMT

In article <1990Dec19.194125.18440@cbnewsh.att.com> mrb1@cbnewsh.att.com (maurice.r.baker) writes:
>Of particular interest to sci.space.shuttle readers who have followed the
>recent discussion on solar flare warning satellite development, etc. is that
>Pioneer 6 has warned of solar storms several weeks in advance of their ar-
>rival here on earth...

In fact, during Project Apollo, Pioneers 6-9 were part of an organized
solar-flare forecasting effort.  The matter was rather more important to
the Apollo astronauts than it is to us today...
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