{"id":4894,"date":"2019-09-03T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/192.243.16.62\/?page_id=4894"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:24:46","slug":"galileo_eng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mdscc.nasa.gov\/index.php\/en\/past-missions\/galileo_eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Galileo_eng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Galileo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"n2-section-smartslider fitvidsignore \" data-ssid=\"24\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Slider\"><div id=\"n2-ss-24-align\" class=\"n2-ss-align\"><div class=\"n2-padding\"><div id=\"n2-ss-24\" data-creator=\"Smart Slider 3\" data-responsive=\"auto\" 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It was the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid &#8212; two in fact, Gaspra and Ida. Galileo provided the only direct observations of a comet colliding with a planet. 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