Twenty years ago today, #Cassini-Huygens’ grand tour began…
On this day 20 years ago: 15 October 1997, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched on a Titan IV-B/Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, starting the most ambitious effort in planetary space exploration ever mounted. See http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/ESA_history/Anniversary_of_the_launch_of_Cassini-Huygens