Pioneer
Pioneer, The Pioneer or pioneering may refer to:
Arts and publications
- The Pioneer (Visalia, California), a sculpture by Solon H. Borglum listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
- The Pioneers (Elmwood, Illinois), a sculpture by Lorado Taft
- The Pioneers (album), an album by MC Eiht and Spice 1
- The Pioneers (novel), a book by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Pioneers (band), a Jamaican vocal trio
- The Pioneer (Indian newspaper), an English-language newspaper published in India
- The Pioneer, a nineteenth-century literary journal edited by James Russell Lowell
- The pioneer (painting), a painting by Frederick McCubbin
- Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps located in greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- "Pioneers" (song), a single by Bloc Party
- "Pioneers! O Pioneers!", a poem by Walt Whitman
- St. Paul Pioneer Press, a newspaper based in St. Paul, Minnesota
- Pioneer One, an American independent film
- Pioneer Pictures, a Hollywood motion picture company
- Tomorrow's Pioneers, a Palestinian children's program
Astronomy
- Pioneer program, a series of NASA probes launched between 1958 and 1978
- Pioneer 0, (Thor-Able 1, Pioneer) - Lunar orbiter, destroyed (Thor failure 77 seconds after launch) August 17, 1958
- Pioneer 1, (Thor-Able 2, Pioneer I) - Lunar orbiter, missed Moon (third stage partial failure) October 11, 1958
- Pioneer 2, (Thor-Able 3, Pioneer II) - Lunar orbiter, reentry (third stage failure) November 8, 1958
- Pioneer 3, Lunar flyby, missed Moon due to launcher failure December 6, 1958
- Pioneer 4, Lunar flyby, achieved Earth escape velocity, launched March 3, 1959
- Pioneer P-1, (Atlas-Able 4A, Pioneer W), probe lost September 24, 1959
- Pioneer P-3, (Atlas-Able 4, Atlas-Able 4B, Pioneer X) - Lunar probe, lost in launcher failure November 26, 1959
- Pioneer 5, (Pioneer P-2, Thor-Able 4, Pioneer V) - interplanetary space between Earth and Venus, launched March 11, 1960
- Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9
- Pioneer P-30, (Atlas-Able 5A, Pioneer Y) - Lunar probe, failed to achieve lunar orbit September 25, 1960
- Pioneer P-31, (Atlas-Able 5B, Pioneer Z) - Lunar probe, lost in upper stage failure December 15, 1960
- Pioneer 10 (Pioneer F) - Jupiter, interstellar medium, launched March 1972
- Pioneer 11 (Pioneer G) - Jupiter, Saturn, interstellar medium, launched April 1973
- Pioneer H - identical to Pioneers 10 and 11, but never launched
- Pioneer Venus project, mission to Venus
- Pioneer plaque, pair of plaques which were placed on board Pioneer 10 and 11
- The Pioneer anomaly, or Pioneer effect, the observed deviation from predicted trajectories and velocities of various unmanned spacecraft visiting the outer solar system
Biology
Business
- Pioneer Aerospace Corporation, a parachute and parafoil manufacturer.
- Pioneer Corporation, a Japan based manufacturer of audio, visual and electronic goods
- Geneon Universal Entertainment or Pioneer Entertainment, a Japanese anime company
- Pioneer Club Las Vegas, a former casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Pioneer Hi-Bred, a seed producer in the United States
- Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall, a casino in Laughlin, Nevada
- Pioneer Investments, an investment management company
- Pioneer Energy, an independent gas station chain in Ontario
- Pioneer Surgical Technology, a Michigan based medical device company
Communist youth movement
Geography
- Pioneer Island (disambiguation), multiple
- Pioneer Pass, a pass on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
- Pioneer, California
- Pioneer, Iowa
- Pioneer, Louisiana
- Pioneer, Ohio
- Pioneer, Singapore
- Pioneer, Tasmania
- Pioneer River, Queensland , Australia
- Pioneer Square, Seattle
- Pioneer Valley
- Shire of Pioneer, former Local Government Area in Australia
History
Military
Oceanography
- Pioneer Seamount, an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California
Politics and religion
- Pioneer (not typically capitalized), an appointed, male or female, full-time preacher of in the organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Bush Pioneer, a person who gathered $100,000 for George W. Bush's 2000 or 2004 presidential campaign
- Mormon pioneers, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who migrated to the Salt Lake Valley
- Mormon handcart pioneers, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who migrated to the Salt Lake Valley using handcarts
- Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholics who abstain from drinking alcohol.
- Pioneering (Bahá'í), unpaid "missionary" work in the Bahá'í Faith
- Pioneers (missions agency), a Christian missionary organization
- Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founders of the Cooperative movement
Schools
- Pioneer Conference (IHSAA), a school conference in Indiana
- Pioneer High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan), a public high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Pioneer High School (San Jose), a public high school in San Jose, California
- Pioneer High School (Whittier, California), a public high school in Whittier, California
- Pioneer Junior College, a junior college in Singapore
Scouting
Ships
Sport
- A category for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
- Nickname for Grinnell College athletic teams
- St. George Pioneerzz, a former minor league baseball team
- Pioneer Baseball League, a minor league baseball league
- Pioneer Football League, a college athletic conference
- Pioneer Bowl, a bowl game between the highest-placing football teams from the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- Elmira Pioneers,an amateur baseball team
- Denver Pioneers, the sports teams of the University of Denver
- Western Mass Pioneers, American soccer team based in Ludlow, Massachusetts
- Bendigo Pioneers, an Australian rules football team
- Petach Tikva Pioneers, a baseball team in the Israel Baseball League
Transportation
See also