Timeline Wednesday 18 October 1989

Events on Wednesday 18 October 1989 1

• 1989 Galileo spacecraft launched Space Shuttle Atlantis deploys probe bound for Jupiter NASA launched the Galileo spacecraft aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on a mission to study Jupiter and its moons. Galileo used gravity assists from Venus and Earth before reaching Jupiter in 1995. It became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet.