Preparing Europa Clipper for its voyage to Jupiter's Ocean Moon, this week on

Planetary Radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure

across our solar system and beyond. Designing, reviewing, redesigning, building,

integrating, and testing at every step along the way, creating a spacecraft is

not work for the timid or anyone lacking patients. And then there's living in a

state of healthy paranoia. That's what Mission System Manager Al Kongawala calls

it, and that's to say nothing of doing all this during one of the least healthy

times in a hundred years. And yet Europa Clipper is making steady progress toward

the beginning of its mission to that world with a hidden water ocean. The one

that scientists and science fiction writers like the late Arthur C. Clarke have

long suspected might be a likely place to find life. We'll get a great update

from Al in a few minutes. I hope you're hearing this before Saturday, August 28th.

That's when sailing the light, the Planetary Society's documentary about our

light sail project will premiere on YouTube. We'll watch the film together and

then all welcome society leaders Bill Nye, Bruce Betts, and Jennifer Vaughn for

a conversation that will include your questions. It starts at 1 p.m. Eastern

1700 UTC on Saturday, the 28th. There's a direct link on our homepage,

planetary.org, and don't worry if you've missed the live celebration, we'll make

it available on demand. We're also coming up on the 2021 Humans

to Mars Summit from Explore Mars. I have learned that all once again moderate

the closing session with a bunch of Mars All-Stars answering a simple question. Why

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