Launch Delays Darken Future of Space Science Series: Recovering From Challenger Series Number: second of three

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 26, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

If the space agency's Galileo mission had been launched last May as scheduled, it would have arrived at Jupiter in 1988. Now, because of the Challenger disaster a year ago Wednesday, the soonest it will arrive is 1995.

That's a 20-year gap between its conception and its penetration of the Jovian atmosphere. The time span, as one analysis put it, is "more than half a research career."

"I'd be perfectly willing to work on missions that my grandchildren would get data from," said Torrence Johnson, Galileo project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "But there should ...

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