NASA Photo ID: S88-47730           File Name: 10063700.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 09/21/88
  Title: Artist concept of Galileo spacecraft
  Description:
  Galileo spacecraft is illustrated in artist concept.  Gallileo, named for
  the  Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician who is credited with 
  construction of the first complete, practical telescope in 1620, will make 
  detailed studies of Jupiter.  A cooperative program with the Federal
  Republic  of Germany the Galileo mission will amplify information acquired
  by two  Voyager spacecraft in their brief flybys.  Galileo is a two-element
  system  that includes a Jupiter-orbiting observatory and an entry probe. 
  Jet  Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is Galileo project manager and builder of
  the  main spacecraft.  Ames Research Center (ARC) has responsibility for
  the entry  probe, which was built by Hughes Aircraft Company and General
  Electric.   Galileo will be deployed from the payload bay (PLB) of
  Atlantis, Orbiter  Vehicle (OV) 104, during mission STS-34.          
  
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  GALILEO SPACECRAFT                      
  STS-34                                  
  VISUAL AIDS                             
  

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