At 3:21 pm (EDT), NASA'S Mission Juno spacecraft will slingshot around Earth towards Jupiter picking up speed to become the fastest man-made object in history.

Videos emerged this week of an object apparently hitting Jupiter. The footage shows a quick flash on the right side of the planet as an object seemingly hits.

Juno's scientists will be the first ones to see things about Jupiter no one has ever seen before. For a few brief moments, they will share a silent bond with Galileo, says Marcelo Gleiser.

He also spoke about the Soviet-era space mission to the planet Venus. A probe from the Cosmos 482 space mission in 1972 will be making reentry into Earth's atmosphere soon.

Nasa's Juno spacecraft has become the fastest object ever made by humanity after clocking in speeds of over 160,000mph during its five-year voyage to Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system.

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Nasa's Juno spacecraft has become the fastest man-made object in history - despite mysteriously partly shutting down.