The mission turned out when I arrived about four weeks later we realized we weren't quite ready to launch and so we were going to miss that one window. And unfortunately now this is super interesting though because you're going to a metal asteroid so interesting which we all know there's so many implications kind of wrapped in that. We have never visited a metal world right we visited rocky worlds Mars earth. That's right just over yeah well congratulations how's it going so far and it's every day is an adventure It's like Mars on Tuesday and earth on Friday and it's an astrophysics in betweenso we've got all kinds of really exciting things. What's a Chuck you didn't ask the
Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.
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