NASA Photo ID: S89-39548          File Name: 10063714.gif 
 
Film Type: 4x5 BW                 Date Taken: 07/18/89 
 
Title: STS-34 Galileo processing at KSC's SAEF-2 planetary spacecraft facility 
 
Description: 
 
At the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Spacecraft and Assembly Encapsulation  
Facility 2 (SAEF-2), the planetary spacecraft checkout facility, 
clean-suited  technicians examine the Galileo spacecraft.  The entire 
Galileo assembly  includes a 5870-pound spacecraft, and an inertial upper 
stage (IUS) booster.   Galileo is scheduled for launch aboard Atlantis, 
Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, on  Space Shuttle Mission STS-34 in October 1989.  
After an initial boost from  the IUS, Galileo will require a triple gravity 
assist from Venus and Earth to  reach Jupiter in 1995.  This complex 
trajectory will allow the first close  flyby of two asteroids.  The 
spacecraft will orbit Jupiter ten times,  yielding the first extended 
observations of the planet, its satellites, and  intense magnetospheric 
environment.  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)  manages the Galileo 
project.  View provided by KSC with alternate number  KSC-89P-570.