GALILEO ENTERING MISSION'S MOST CRITICAL PHASE THIS WEEK

Galileo project engineers and scientists will be on edge Dec. 7 waiting for signs of success or failure of the most critical, and dangerous, part of the spacecraft's mission to Jupiter. At 5:05 p.m. EST, the mission's probe will hit the planet's atmosphere at 106,000 mph. and be subject to an...

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