On Dec. 8, 1990, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by Earth on its way to Jupiter. Galileo was the first spacecraft to study Jupiter and its moons for an extended period of time, and it actually flew ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited ...

PASADENA— As obsessed with germs as the most fastidious of housekeepers, NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo into Jupiter next weekend to avoid the aging spacecraft's contaminating one ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io.. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

Europe may be mired in financial austerity, but that has not derailed the region's effort to duplicate GPS with the Galileo satellite navigation and timing constellation. Instead, it is changing ...

Star Trek's Galileo shuttlecraft -- fully restored -- has touched down at the Space Center Houston, not far from NASA's Mission control. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula North Bay.