NASA Photo ID: S89-45182           File Name: 10063722.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 09/19/89
  Title: STS-34 Atlantis, OV-104, payload bay with Galileo spacecraft and IUS
  Description:
  The Galileo spacecraft and its inertial upper stage (IUS) installed in the 
  payload bay (PLB) of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104 at a Kennedy Space 
  Center (KSC) processing facility.  IUS is supported in PLB by airborne 
  support equipment (ASE) forward cradle and aft frame tilt actuator (AFTA) 
  table.  Launch of mission STS-34 is planned for no earlier than 10-12-89
  with  Galileo to be deployed from the PLB about six hours after launch. 
  The IUS  will be ignited shortly thereafter to place Galileo on a planetary
  trajectory  which will carry it past Venus once and the Earth twice before
  swinging out  toward Jupiter.  Galileo is to arrive in the vicinity of the
  Solar System's  largest planet more than six years after launch.  The
  parent spacecraft will  become the first to go into orbit around Jupiter
  and will spend two years  studying the large planet and its moons.  A probe
  will be deployed from  Galileo during planetary approach to descend into
  Jupiter's dynamic  atmosphere and radio information back to the orbiting
  spacecraft.  View  provided by KSC with alternate number KSC-89PC-820.       
  
  Subject terms:
  ATLANTIS (ORBITER)                      
  GALILEO SPACECRAFT                      
  INERTIAL UPPER STAGE                    
  PAYLOAD BAY                             
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  STS-34                                  
  

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