Description : Ulysses, a joint project between the European Space Agency and NASA, was the first spacecraft to study the Sun`s polar regions. Its voyage to the Sun began with a sixteen month trip to Jupiter where the planet`s gravitational energy was used to fling Ulysses southward out of the orbital plane of the planets and on toward a solar south pole passage in 1994. The spacecraft crossed back over the orbital plane and made a solar north pole passage in 1995. KSC post stamp.

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STS 41 (DISCOVERY) · ULYSSES SOLAR ORBITER · INTERNATIONAL MISSION