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The Galileo spacecraft (illustration shown) arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
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Space Shuttle orbiter (1985–2011)
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1989 American crewed spaceflight to deploy Galileo
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