Galileo's Jupiter Journey Began Two Decades Ago

Launch: Oct. 18, 1989, from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on space shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-34Arrival in orbit around Jupiter: Dec. 7, 1995VEEGA (Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist) is the acronym mission planners gave for Galileo's flight path through the inner solar systemObserved impacts of fragments from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into JupiterApproximate number of people (from around the world