Podcast: Galileo Spaceship

The Galileo mission was a plan to have a spacecraft go to Jupiter and actually stay and study the planet, rather than just a fly by. The plan was concieved in the early 1970's. It finally launched in 1989, they used gravitational boost methods to get it to Jupiter. It had many challanges getting it to Jupiter. They even had to change how it transmitted information because its original transmitter broke. They had to wait over a decade before it got to Jupiter 1991 it filmed a astroid and the astroid Ida and it's moon. The scacecraft allowed many scientific discoveries.