VINTAGE 1989 GALILEO JUPITER PROBE SPACECRAFT PIN HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY

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VINTAGE 1989 GALILEO JUPITER
PROBE
SPACECRAFT PIN
HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY - EXCELLENT CONDITION
As the pictures show, this pin is in Excellent Condition.
From the estate of a retired Hughes Aircraft Company Employee.
It is shows almost no wear, the pictures are current and accurate. These pins were awarded to Employees who actually worked on this program, they were not readily available to the public and t
hey were made in very limited quantities. They
are rare and very hard to find
.
A nice piece of Aerospace Memorabilia !!!
Built by the Hughes Aircraft Company and launched into space in 1989. The Galileo
Probe was an American robotic
spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter
and its moons
, as well as several other
Solar System bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei
, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989 by Space Shuttle Atlantis
.
Galileo
arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, after
gravitational assist flybys of
Venus and Earth,
and became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter. It launched the first probe into Jupiter, directly measuring its atmosphere.
Despite suffering major antenna problems,
Galileo
achieved the first
asteroid flyby,
of 951 Gaspra and discovered the first asteroid moon
, Dactyl, around 243 Ida
. In 1994,
Galileo
also observed Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's
collision with Jupiter.
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