On this day in 1992 - July 10th - ESA's Giotto spacecraft flew past comet Grigg-Skjellerup.

Having successfully returned images and data from Halley's Comet in 1986, the flyby of Grigg-Skjellerup was the completion of Giotto's mission.


Mona Evans
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