35 Years Ago: STS-34 Sends Galileo on its Way to Jupiter

On Oct. 18, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its fifth flight, STS-34, from NASAs Kennedy Space Center KSC in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander Donald E. Williams, Pilot Michael J. McCulley, and Mission Specialists Shannon W. Lucid, Franklin R. Chang-Daz, and Ellen S. Baker flew a five-day mission that deployed the Galileo 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/histo...
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