NASA Photo ID: S89-36108           File Name: 10063713.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5 BW                  Date Taken: 06/08/89
  Title: STS-34 Galileo probe processing at KSC's SAEF-2 planetary spacecraft facility
  Description:
  At the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Spacecraft and Assembly Encapsulation 
  Facility 2 (SAEF-2), the planetary spacecraft checkout facility,
  technicians  from the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) and Hughes Aircraft
  Company prepare  the 737-pound Galileo Jovian atmospheric probe for final
  assembly following  its arrival 04-17-89.  The entire Galileo assembly will
  also include a  5870-pound spacecraft, and an inertial upper stage (IUS)
  booster.  Galileo is  scheduled for launch aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle
  (OV) 104, on Space  Shuttle Mission STS-34 in October 1989.  After an
  initial boost from the IUS,  Galileo will require a triple gravity assist
  from Venus and Earth to reach  Jupiter in 1995.  This complex trajectory
  will allow the first close flyby of  two asteroids.  Approaching Jupiter,
  the probe will separate from the  spacecraft to provide the first direct
  sampling of the Jovian atmosphere.   The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter ten
  times, yielding the first extended  observations of the planet, its
  satellites, and intense magnetospheric  environment.  NASA's Jet Propulsion
  Laboratory (JPL) manages the Galileo  project.  View provided by KSC with
  alternate number KSC-89P-553.      
  
  Subject terms:
  GALILEO PROBE                           
  GALILEO SPACECRAFT                      
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  STS-34                                  
  

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