Project Juno

Project Juno was a privately funded and operated crewed mission to the planet Saturn. The mission was operated by Vega Aerospace out of Vega's Mission Control Center in California. The flight launched in 2005 and took five years to complete, round-trip. The spacecraft flew past Jupiter in 2006 and arrived at Saturn in 2007. The crew remained in the Saturnine system for four months exploring the different moons as well as setting foot on the surface of the planet's largest moon, Titan. There was even an uncrewed glider flown through the upper atmosphere of Saturn prior to the departure from the system. The spacecraft returned to Earth in 2010.
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