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PIETY 6
Deep Space Exploration Drone
Launched June 15, 1965 from
Mozambique.
Monitored day and night for two months straight by the carmelite order
that runs mission control in Vatican City, the Piety Space Probe proved
a difficult child for its the nuns. Faulty retro rockets refused to fire
only 1,500 miles from earth orbit and the craft remained inopperative
for several hours. The computers were succesfully reprogrammed and the
spacecraft was able to continue it's journey to Mars and on into the rest
of the solar system.

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