NASA Photo ID: S89-42091           File Name: 10063721.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 08/18/89
  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 work on the Galileo spacecraft prior to moving it
  to the  Vehicle Processing Facility (VPF) for mating with the inertial
  upper  stage (IUS).  Galileo is scheduled for launch aboard Atlantis,
  Orbiter  Vehicle (OV) 104, on Space Shuttle Mission STS-34 in October 1989.
  It will be  sent to the planet Jupiter, a journey which will taken more
  than six years to  complete.  In December 1995 as the two and one half ton
  spacecraft orbits  Jupiter with its ten scientific instruments, a probe
  will be released to  parachute into the Jovian atmosphere.  NASA's Jet
  Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)  manages the Galileo project.  View provided by
  KSC.           
  Subject terms:
  GALILEO PROBE                           
  GALILEO SPACECRAFT                      
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  STS-34                                  
  

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