Europa Clipper is on its way to Jupiter, this week on planetary radio.

I'm Sarah Al Ahmed of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission blasted off on Monday, October 14, 2024, on an epic mission to investigate

Europa.

It's a moon of Jupiter with a potentially habitable subsurface ocean.

This week we hear the harrowing and triumphant tale of the launch from Bob Popolardo, the mission's project scientist.

He'll sure how their team navigated some technical issues and Hurricane Milton.

Then we look forward to the Planetary Society's upcoming collaboration with Star Talk,

as Neil Degrass Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York

visits our headquarters in Pasadena, California.

Finally, Bruce Betts joins me for What's Up,

a beautiful member submitted poem,

and a new random space fact.

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Before we jump into the Europa Clipper team's heroic tale, I've got a fun update from a story that we've been

covering for the past few months. In April we invited Latif Nasseron to our show.

He's one of the co-hosts of the Radio Lab Podcast. He told us the story of how a typo on a space poster in his

kid's bedroom led to the official naming of a quasi-moon of Venus called

Zeus Vay. He returned in June to share the new collaboration between Radio Lab and the International Astronomical Union or the I.AU.

They created a public naming contest for a quasi moon of Earth that I know a lot of our listeners participated in.

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