... Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It doesn't affect the end result (that Galileo cannot blow up like a bomb), but I want to make sure I am honest here. ... In October of 1989, NASA launched the Galileo spacecraft toward the planet Jupiter. ... They claim that NASA's nefarious scheme was to drop Galileo into Jupiter and use it to ignite Jupiter like a fusion bomb, either turning it into a star like the Sun, or simply blowing it to...