You may have realized by the many posts I have done advocating a "field trip" to Jupiter's moon, Europa, that I am an advocate of space exploration. Since NASA has pretty much phoned it in since the Moon landing, I am very excited about the possibility of either Mars or Europa visits by actual humans - and not robots - even if it doesn't happen in my lifetime. Well, we've fallen on hard times (or perhaps hard times have fallen on us) ... the whole world has ... but that seems to me to be an argument for GOING and SEEING instead of cutting the trips that could possibly provide another home for humans. Europa and Mars are relatively close to Earth ... and while traveling at the speed of light would definitely help other places to be more doable, I don't see that happening any time soon. So, with no further ado, please see below linkspam for all the latest, if not greatest, news about the Europa mission.
Budget cuts may mean Europa mission gets cut too. See also this story about the budget cuts. And another story about the budget cuts and a short overview of the potential mission.
But then, here's what the smart people say and here's a short video of them saying it.
And here is WHY they're saying it.
And now you have the rest of the story. Stay tuned for further information.
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