New Hampshire Astronomical SocietyOctober 6th in Astronomy and Space Science
 | 1990 | US launches the US-European space probe Ulysses on the space shuttle Discovery. On 8 February 1992 Ulysses makes a gravity assist loop around Jupiter, propelling the spacecraft out of the plane of the ecliptic and into a polar orbit of the Sun. |
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