AMAZING: Cassini Spacecraft About To Celebrate 10 Years In Orbit Around Saturn. Follow the link for the photos.

Back then (1970s-80s, when Cassini and its predecessors were conceived, designed, and built) the U.S. could do things. Because it's nuclear-powered, today Cassini couldn't be built without the EPA requiring a galactic-wide environmental impact statement.

Well, maybe only a solar-system wide one....