Juno's Jupiter Arrival Continues String of July 4 Spaceflight Milestones

On Monday (July 4), NASA flight controllers will join mission scientists and managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to watch as the agency's Juno spacecraft enters polar orbit around Jupiter. Oh, and it will be America's Independence Day, too. If this all seems familiar — NASA marking a mission milestone on the Fourth of July — it should.