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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 NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of

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