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The first spacecraft which did not merely fly bya jovian (or giant) planet, but actually went into orbit around it for an extended period of time was

a. Galileo
b. Einstein
c. Voyager
d. the Hubble Space Telescope
e. Cassini

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Answer:The first spacecraft which did not merely fly by a jovian (or giant) planet, but actually went into orbit around it for an extended period of time was option a, Galileo. The Galileo spacecraft was launched in 1989 and orbited Jupiter for almost eight years, from 1995 to 2003.

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