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STS-34 (Galileo)
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 18 Oct 1989, 04:53 pm UTC
Rocket: Space Shuttle
Provider: Lockheed Space Operations Company
Mission
Type: Planetary Science
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission Description
STS-34 was the thirty-first shuttle mission and the fifth for Atlantis. It deployed the Jupiter-bound Galileo probe.