New Hampshire Astronomical SocietyAugust 18th in Astronomy and Space Science
 | 1999 | The US-European-Italian Cassini-Huygens spacecraft makes a gravity assist loop around the Earth. It has also swung around Venus twice, and will loop around Jupiter to gain enough velocity to propel it to Saturn, its final destination. |
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