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The Galileo spacecraft leaving earth

author: NASA/Novapix

reference: e-son14-00002

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 20 cm

The Galileo spacecraft atop its two-stage Inertial Upper Stage has just been released from the space shuttle in this artist's rendering. Galileo was launched to Jupiter in October 1989 from the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

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1989 - ATLANTIS - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - GALILEO - ILLUSTRATION - IUS - LIMB - SPACE - SPACE SHUTTLE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE - STS-34 -