Orrery. Donna Kane

      The genre was a flyby, Pioneer 10 the singular proper noun of the neuter gender, subject complement renaming Pioneer F after launching without a hitch.

      Launching—a verb expressing the action in the indicative mood. Without a hitch—prepositional phrase modifying the launch into the past progressive— forty-two years, seventeen hours, fifteen minutes

      and counting. Goodbye direct objects. Hello incomplete sentence, body without a thought.