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Galileo End of Mission Status
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| September 21, 2003
| JPL staff
Posted on 09/21/2003 9:54:47 PM PDT by Aracelis
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posted on
09/21/2003 9:54:48 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: Doctor Stochastic; Junior; js1138; BMCDA; CobaltBlue; ThinkPlease; PatrickHenry; ...
Ping!
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posted on
09/21/2003 9:55:19 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: Piltdown_Woman
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom"
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:02:29 PM PDT
by
LRS
To: Piltdown_Woman
Thanks for the ping. Hmmm... Jupiter is still Jupiter, not another sun I see! :-)
To: LRS
He was one of our mascots for a spacecraftI flew. During launch, we had Marvins all over the control room. :-)
To: RadioAstronomer
I'm just an average Joe when it comes to our space exploration, but my hat is tipped for everyone involved, and when it comes to the Galileo craft and its mission, even I, with my limited knowledge, can not keep from being impressed. That craft, and the people involved, did one amazing job!
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:10:50 PM PDT
by
LRS
To: Piltdown_Woman
Dudes on "Art Bell" (Coast To Coast AM) all week were predicting it would turn Jupiter into a "second sun" (ala the movie "2010") sending a shock wave through the solar system that would basically wipe out life on earth.
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:12:24 PM PDT
by
gg188
To: LRS; RadioAstronomer
Ah yes, this was discussed briefly on Art Bell last night. The plutonium aboard Galileo was supposed to push it over the "edge" and create a second sun.
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:12:36 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: Piltdown_Woman
Farewell, Jovian spacecraft Galileo. You did your namesake proud.
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:15:01 PM PDT
by
Elliott Jackalope
(Posted in the memory of the scientist Galileo, and the robot space probe Galileo.)
To: All
Go
here to listen to the "Sounds of Jupiter", as recorded by Galileo.
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:16:13 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: LRS
We "dropped" ours (the one I flew) into the Venusian atmosphere. Fitting end to a spacecraft. There ware a few misty eyes. :-)
To: RadioAstronomer
There ware a few misty eyesAs I imagine there are right now about Galileo...
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:21:30 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: Elliott Jackalope
Farewell, Jovian spacecraft Galileo. You did your namesake proud.Very nice eulogy! Thank you. :-)
To: Piltdown_Woman
I do not doubt it. I know people on that mission.
To: RadioAstronomer
What will these people do now that their "bird" is retired?
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:26:32 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: Piltdown_Woman
How fitting that the Galileo spacecraft would be self-destructed in order to preserve the possibility for life that Galileo itself discovered. Also fitting, is that the spacecraft, named after a man who observed Jupiter and its moons, that has spent its life observing Jupiter itself, has now become a part of Jupiter forever.
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:28:50 PM PDT
by
Quick1
To: RadioAstronomer
We "dropped" ours (the one I flew) into the Venusian atmosphere. Pioneer Venus, perhaps? I worked on that one.
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:31:31 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
To: Piltdown_Woman
Most have already lined up positions on other programs. I could have gone from the Magellan to the Galileo except I ended up on Space Station instead.
To: RadioAstronomer
Ahh! Pioneer or Magellan?
I hope you realize you guys spoiled our romanticized Venus of buxom babes, jungles, and dinosaurs ;-)
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posted on
09/21/2003 10:33:31 PM PDT
by
LRS
To: Hank Rearden
You worked Pioneer Venus? WAY COOL!
I was with the Magellan program. :-)
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