On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Ida on its way to Jupiter. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/qOOKk2 Galileo was the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid in the asteroid belt. Ida was actually the second one it visited after another flyby of the asteroid Gaspra in 1991. It whizzed by Ida going almost 28,000 miles per hour and came within 1,500 miles of the asteroid's surface. During the encounter, Galileo actually discovered a tiny moon orb

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