It was not supposed to last as long as it did, but after fourteen years in space, the Galileo satellite was intentionally steered to a fiery death in Jupiter’s atmosphere lest it contaminate one of the planet’s moons. A retrospective for the faithful research spacecraft, this program recaps the history of NASA’s 30-year Galileo project, interviewing several people for whom its mission was essentially their entire career. (23 minutes)

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