Jan 19
The Hardest NASA Mission in History, a primer on NASA’s Galileo Mission to Jupiter and its Moons 🛰️
The new video I researched and co-wrote with the Hoog team is up. It covers the history, construction, launch, and cornucopia of problems that the Galileo mission encountered. It’s a fun time
Research was a fairly intense process and while I pull from a lot sources, a fair bit was based on Mission to Jupiter by Michael Meltzer. It is THE book about Galileo and I can’t recommend it enough. For this project I read through this book and dissected it about four times
Galileo will always have a special place in my heart. It’s a very long, very good story. Galileo is really the little satellite that could even though it was plagued by problems
