"John Jones" wrote in sci.astro:

Can anyone tell me what the original plans were for disposing of
Galileo when it was first launched? Before all it's problems
arose?

I don't think the plans originally called for it being dropped
into Jupiter, but I don't really rememeber.



The moment they decided to drop it into the Jupiter atmosphere was when
information came up that there could be life in those presumed oceans
under the icy surface of Europa.

Before that they simply would let the poor thing degrade until it was
caught by gravity and would hit one of the objects in the Jovian system by
chance.

BTW I can state that there is really life in Europe, and it's not under
the ocean. Yet. But that's another story

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