Pioneer10.com is the personal web space of Duane King, an art director at focus2. The domain name was chosen because the spacecraft is a symbol of man's need to explore. In 1972, Pioneer 10 was launched, carrying earth's first space probe to an outer planet. Like a message in a bottle, it carries a plaque intended to show scientifically educated inhabitants of other star systems when it was launched, from where, and by what kind of beings. Pioneer 10 became the first man-made object to escape our solar system in 1983 when it passed beyond the farthest known planet. Explore Pioneer10.