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Today's featured article Artist's impression of Galileo's arrival at Jupiter The Galileo project was an American robotic space program that studied Jupiter and its moons (including Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Galileo spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe. It was launched in 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission. Despite suffering major antenna problems, Galileo achieved the first asteroid flyby (of 951 Gaspra), discovered the first asteroid moon (Dactyl, around 243 Ida), and observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's collision with Jupiter. After gravity-assisted flybys of Venus and Earth, Galileo became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter. It then launched the first probe to directly measure Jupiter's atmosphere. In 2003, the mission was terminated by sending the orbiter into Jupiter's atmosphere to eliminate the possibility of contaminating the Jovian moons with terrestrial bacteria. (Full article...) Recently featured: Changi Airport MRT station New York Dolls Battle of Glasgow, Missouri On this day... October 18: Alaska Day (1867) Bob Beamon 1565 – The first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the Japanese occurred when a flotilla of samurai attacked two Portuguese trade vessels at the Battle of Fukuda Bay in Nagasaki. 1748 – The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. 1873 – Renton defeated Kilmarnock 2–0 in the opening match of the inaugural Scottish Cup. 1968 – At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American athlete Bob Beamon (pictured) achieved a distance of 8.90 m (29.2 ft) in the long jump event, setting a world record that stood for 23 years. John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter (d. 1361) Mehmet Esat Bülkat (b. 1862) Maria Antonescu (d. 1964) Bess Truman (d. 1982) More anniversaries: October 17 October 18 October 19

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