Galileo (disambiguation)

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Galileo can mean:

• People
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), astronomer, philosopher, and physicist.

• Business
  • GALILEO an Argentine company of the Sideco Group
  • SS Galileo Galilei, a cruise liner
  • Galileo CRS, an airline reservation system.
  • Galileo Galilei International Airport, an airport located in Pisa, Italy

• Culture
  • Galileo (song), a pop song by the Indigo Girls.
  • Galileo (magazine), a 1970s science fiction magazine.
  • Life of Galileo, a play by Bertolt Brecht.
  • Galileo (movie), an adaptation of Brecht's play.
  • Galileo Galilei (opera), an opera by Philip Glass.
  • Galileo: The True Story is an operetta by Patrick Moore.
  • Did Galileo Pray? (song), a pop song by Ellis Paul.

• Education
  • Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, a high school in San Francisco.
  • Galileo University is a centre of higher education in Guatemala.

• Science and technology
  • Galileo (unit), a measure of acceleration.
  • Galileo spacecraft, a space probe that visited Jupiter.
  • Galileo positioning system, a European satellite navigation system, currently in development.
  • Galileo (Program), a German science program

• Science fiction
  • Galileo, a shuttlecraft belonging to the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) on Star Trek