Nov 9 1989
From The Space Library
While on the way to a gravity assist flyby of Venus, the Galileo Jupiter space probe made the first course corrections by briefly firing its thrusters. This was the first of about 30 course corrections to be undertaken by Galileo during its five-year trip to Jupiter. (NASA STS-34 Press Kit, Oct/89; NASA Facts: STS-34 Galileo-KSC Release 79-89, Sep 89; W Times, Nov 10/89; P Inq, Nov 10/89; UPI, Nov 14/89)
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