Shuttle-Centaur
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Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle and used to launch satellites into high Earth orbits or probes into deep space. Tw
Illustration of Shuttle-Centaur G-Prime with Ulysses
A Centaur rocket during assembly at General Dynamics in 1962. Its development pioneered the use of liquid hydrogen as a rocket fuel.
Artist's impression of the Galileo spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter
Galileo spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 in 1989
Galileo project
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Galileo was an American robotic space program that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Galil
Artist's concept of Galileo at Io with Jupiter in the background. The high-gain antenna is fully deployed in this illustration but in reality the antenna failed to extend.
In the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), Galileo is prepared for mating with the Inertial Upper Stage booster.
Model of Galileo atop a Centaur G Prime upper stage in the San Diego Air and Space Museum
Astronauts John M. Fabian and David M. Walker pose in front of a model of the Shuttle-Centaur with Galileo in mid-1985