Aug 28 1993
From The Space Library
NASA announced that the Galileo spacecraft had successfully explored the asteroid Ida located between Mars and Jupiter. Although hampered by a jammed main antenna, Galileo zoomed around 1,491 miles from Ida and took all but three of 21 planned photographs. The three missing photos were the longest-distance photos and unimportant compared with the close-ups. The first photos were not scheduled to arrive at Earth for another two months; the others were to be transmitted in the spring of 1994. (AP, Aug 28/93; RTW, Aug 28/93; USA Today, Aug 30/93; NY Times, Aug 29/93)
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