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Leaving Earth Orbit
 
 
Leaving Earth Orbit
The Galileo spacecraft atop its two-stage Inertial Upper Stage has just been released from the space shuttle in this artist's rendering. Galileo was launched to Jupiter in October 1989 from the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

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