NATION : Galileo Races Toward Jupiter
<i> From Times wire services</i>
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
A healthy Galileo spacecraft sped unerringly toward distant Jupiter today, while the five orbiting astronauts who released it measured the threatened ozone layer that is Earth’s natural sunscreen.
Racing along at more than 9,000 m.p.h., the probe by midafternoon was more than 200,000 miles out on its 2.4-billion-mile, six-year journey to study the largest planet in the solar system in a search for clues to how the universe began.
