Welcome to Jupiter - NASA's Juno Achieves Orbit around 'King of the Planets'

Welcome to Jupiter! NASA's Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter at this moment! "NASA has done it again!" pronounced an elated Scott Bolton, investigator of Juno from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, to loud cheers and applause from the overflow crowd of mission scientists and media gathered at the post orbit media briefing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. After a nearly five year journey covering 1.7-billion-miles (2.8-billion-kilometers) across our solar...