Galileo's Execution Essay: The Journey To Jupiter

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like our sun had developed more than 4.5 billion years ago. It was a target even before Galileo had launched. Four spacecrafts had reached Jupiter before Galileo did; Voyager 1 and 2 as well as Pioneer 10 and 11 were those four spacecrafts but were unable to stay and it limited the information that the scientists had needed. It was from those spacecrafts that NASA decided to construct Galileo to discover more information on Jupiter and its moons. The journey to Jupiter itself was a hard one, with Galileo not having enough fuel to complete the expedition however, it could use energy from Venus and Earth to make the journey. NASA named this route VEEGA (Venus Earth and Earth Gravity Assist). Galileo would slingshot around Venus’ orbit (the regularly

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