1973

  • Sesame Street First Broadcast on German TV (1973)

    Sesame Street is one of the most successful television series for preschool children. The half-hour episodes consist of six to ten shorter, mostly thematically independent segments that interrupt a coherent overarching storyline. In addition to sketch-like or educational puppet dialogues (“A circle is round,” “Now I’m here, now I’m there”), cartoons, and children’s songs,…

  • Pioneer 10 Satellite Has Closest Approach to Jupiter (1973)

    Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10 became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System. This space exploration project was conducted by the NASA Ames Research Center in California. The space probe was manufactured by TRW Inc. Pioneer 10 was assembled around a hexagonal bus with a…