With SpaceX over the weekend taking another giant step toward CEO Elon Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars, the company on Monday launched a NASA space probe on a quest to find organic life on Jupiter’s moon Europa.
After a couple of days’ delay due to Hurricane Milton, a Falcon Heavy Rocket launched NASA’s Europa Clipper from Kennedy Space Center in Florida shortly after noon local time.
It won’t be until another 5 1/2 years that NASA’s Europa Clipper reaches our solar system’s biggest planet, 1.8 billion miles from here, where it will slip into orbit to observe Europa during dozens of radiation-drenched flybys….