October 18, 1989, September 19 (Baba), the United States launched the Galileo Jupiter spacecraft.

1989 10, 18, twice delayed the launch of space shuttle "Atlantis", and finally in the afternoon 12 53 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, roared rushed sky. "Atlantis" The main task of the space trip is to explore Jupiter's Galileo spacecraft into Earth orbit.
7:13 that night, "Atlantis" has been successfully released the Galileo spacecraft and its propeller. At this point, the Galileo spacecraft has set foot for six years, a trip of about 3.8 billion kilometers long journey flying to Jupiter. Flew to Jupiter in December 1995, an automatic detector out of the spacecraft, fall into Jupiter's atmosphere. This will be the first human-made aircraft deep into outer space solar system planets atmosphere. The media here that the "Galileo" The successful launch of space exploration means that the United States has entered a golden age. The space shuttle "Atlantis"
launch was originally scheduled for last Thursday was postponed due to computer failure to yesterday, but in case of a lightning storm again postponed.
"Atlantis" is expected on Monday to return to the ground. 5 astronauts to perform the mission, including the ethnic Chinese physicist Franklin Chang-Diaz.
according to plan, the Galileo spacecraft passing Venus will be in February 1990, flying over the Earth in December 1990 and December 1992, and then with the Earth's gravitational arrived at Jupiter in December 1995.
"Galileo spacecraft, which cost nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars, is by far the most sophisticated starship in the United States, the entire launch plans to spend about $ 1.5 billion. The spaceship total weight of 2550 kg, a nuclear power plant, containing 22.7 kilograms of radioactive uranium, 238. The spacecraft is equipped with cameras, near-infrared survey spectrometer, magnetometer instrument, the cloud measuring instrument, the atmospheric structure instrument, such as 17 kinds of scientific instruments for Jupiter's atmosphere constitutes the clouds structure, temperature, magnetic field and other aspects of the investigation and research.
the Galileo Jupiter probe plans by the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany joint.