Pioneer 10 and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft. The plaque is attached to the antenna support struts to provide some shielding from interstellar dust. In the film "", a Klingon ship destroys "Pioneer 10" as target practice. In the internet multimedia fiction project "17776", a sentient "Pioneer 10" is one of the main characters. Pioneer 10 Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, launched in 1972 and weighing , that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Thereafter, "Pioneer 10" became the first of five
Helena Russell stated his given name was 'Telford'.) In 1994, Helena was widowed when Lee Russell departed on the Astro Seven mission to Jupiter and never returned. All hands of the mission were declared dead. The couple never had children. After her husband's death, she was employed on Earth by the World Space Commission. In 1997, she was part of a team evaluating the mental state of Captain Tony Cellini. Cellini, the sole survivor of the Ultra Probe mission, returned to Earth speaking of his ordeal with a deadly space 'dragon' lifeform in a spaceship graveyard on the far side of planet