The Speculist

Farewell Galileo

I haven't made the time to write anything about the dramatic and somehow poetic end of the Galileo mission, and now I see there is no need. You can read this succinct summary of what Galileo was all about over on Samizdata, and then pour yourself a cup of coffee and hunker down for Stephen Den Beste's excellent treatise on primary and secondary mission objectives, and the role that chaos theory played in the decision to plunge the spacecraft into the Jovian atmosphere.