NASA Photo ID: S89-39548           File Name: 10063714.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5 BW                  Date Taken: 07/18/89
  Title: STS-34 Galileo 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,
  clean-suited  technicians examine the Galileo spacecraft.  The entire
  Galileo assembly  includes 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.  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-570.         
  
  Subject terms:
  GALILEO PROBE                           
  GALILEO SPACECRAFT                      
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  STS-34                                  
  

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