We're Glad to Have You There, Chuck.

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NASA's first dedicated mission to Europa is sitting in our high bay in our big giant clean room here at JPL being put together. It's called Europa Clipper and it's going to launch in October of 2024. So we're back to the question that we dangled right in front of all three of us. What's the person's name again, Chuck? It's Jonathan Cole or Q. K U H L. Cool. He's probably Jonathan cool. Yes. I'll get the letter on social media. My name is cool as in Joe. As in Joe, cool. Ex-CIA director John Grunsfeld: "It was quite a pedigree"

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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Photo Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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